Second monitor blank with radeon, works with vesa

[Alex Deucher]

On Feb 10, 2008 11:07 PM, Ritesh Sood <riteshsood at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks for your help, Alex.
> I've experimented with xrandr, but the VGA monitor stubbornly refuses to
> light up.
> Since I use startx, ending the KDE session and going to console brings it up
> though.
>  Attached is the ouput from xrandr --prop
>  If you can give me some more tips, that would be helpful.
> A command to give to xrandr, perhaps?
>

Does a VT switch away from X and then back again help?

Alex

> Thanks again,
> Ritesh
>
>
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>  On Feb 10, 2008 1:28 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >
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> > On Feb 10, 2008 1:37 PM, Ritesh Sood <riteshsood at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >           I'm using the radeon driver with two monitors. Problem is that
> the
> > > second monitor goes blank. I've been having this
> > > problem ever since updating and building the xfree86-video-ati  git
> source
> > > some two-three weeks ago. The problem has persisted
> > >  even after regularly updating  and building the source  as soon as new
> code
> > > is checked into git.  My card is the  Radeon 9200. Both monitors
> > > come on with the vesa driver (its slow and it's clone mode so pretty
> > > unusable). The rest of the Xorg components, libs, xserver, etc are built
> > > from the latest git source also, so i'm pretty sure the problem is with
> the
> > > radeon driver.
> > >          xorg.cong and log files are attached.
> > >
> >
> > Which monitor works, the one attached to the VGA port or the DVI port?
> >  For the non-working monitor, do any modes other than 1280x1024 work?
> > What about other 1280x1024 modes?  You can use xrandr to change the
> > modes.
> >
> >
> > Alex
> >
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