xf86-video-ati randr-1.2 branch on PowerBook5,4 with RV350

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Fri Aug 24 17:37:18 PDT 2007


On 8/24/07, Paul Collins <paul at briny.ondioline.org> wrote:
> "Alex Deucher" <alexdeucher at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On 8/24/07, Paul Collins <paul at briny.ondioline.org> wrote:
> >> "Alex Deucher" <alexdeucher at gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > Are both monitors blank or just the monitor on the VGA port?
> >>
> >> No problems with the laptop display.  Also, despite what xrandr seems to
> >> be saying, the external display is DVI.
> >
> > Ah, that would explain it.  VGA uses a DAC, DVI uses a TMDS
> > controller: different hardware.  Since apples have no connector table
> > we hardcode the connectors.  by default I set up LVDS and VGA.
> > [snippage]
> >
> > Add one of the following to the device section of your config:
> >
> > Internal TMDS
> > Option "ConnectorTable" "2,2,2,1,3,0,0,3"
>
> This did the trick, thanks!

Sure.  what are your pci subsystem ids?  I can start adding quirks for
various apples.

>
> Xv doesn't seem to work on the second head, though.  Is this expected?
> (Doesn't work as in when I drag the video window over from the internal
> display, all I see is what I assume is the overlay key colour.)

It should work, but for some reason it doesn't.  The server seems to
clip the video to the size of the primary crtc before we even get down
to the driver level.  I'm not sure what exactly is going on.

Alex



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