Dual Head with ATI (DVI + VGA)

[Dave Airlie]

On 9/23/06, Michael Gebhart <lists at miketech.net> wrote:
> I can give it a try.
>
> Could you please give me any hint how to use git? Never worked with it.
> Where is the repository for the ati driver?

Install git from distro is possible (git-core usually is package name...)
then
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/UsingGit

the driver is at

git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati

You might need to install some devel packages on your distro to build
it, Edgy has them all...

Dave.
>
> Greetings
>
> Mike
> > Can you install the latest ATI driver from git? I think it should fix
> > TMDS,CRT issues..
> >
> > Dave.
> >
> > On 9/23/06, Michael Gebhart <lists at miketech.net> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've seen, that I have to set the monitor layout to TMDS,CRT instead of
> > > CRT,TMDS. So now the second monitor is working, but there is no output
> > > on the DVI port, although the resolution is detected correctly.
> > >
> > > Any idea, what could be still wrong?
> > >
> > > Greetings
> > >
> > > Mike
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I am still trying to get my ATI 9100 IGP working with dual head.
> > > >
> > > > I have Ubuntu Edgy Eft installed with the newest version of Xorg and the
> > > > xorg-ati drivers.
> > > >
> > > > I have two monitors connected, one on DVI another on VGA. Both screens
> > > > are detected correctly and the right resolutions are choosen.
> > > >
> > > > (1280x1024 for the monitor (Samsung) on DVI, 1024x768 for the monitor
> > > > (Philips) on VGA)
> > > >
> > > > Here is my lspci output:
> > > >
> > > > 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 9100 IGP
> > > > (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> > > >       Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8107
> > > >       Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 177
> > > >       Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
> > > >       I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
> > > >       Memory at fdc00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> > > >       Expansion ROM at fdb00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
> > > >       Capabilities: [58] AGP version 3.0
> > > >       Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> > > >
> > > > Here is my config:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.miketech.net/xorg/ati-info/xorg.conf
> > > >
> > > > And here is the log:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.miketech.net/xorg/ati-info/Xorg.0.log
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > As you can see everything is detected correctly, isn't it?
> > > >
> > > > My problem is, that both screens are blank. They enter the sleep mode
> > > > and don't display X.
> > > >
> > > > Any idea, what I am doing wrong?
> > > >
> > > > Greetings
> > > >
> > > > Michael
> > > >
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