Second monitor blank with radeon, works with vesa

Ritesh Sood riteshsood at gmail.com
Mon Feb 11 11:48:00 PST 2008


just tried VT switching away from X and back. Doesn't help either.
Also, theres no response to Ctrl-Alt-Plus or Ctrl-Alt-Minus,  although there
are two modes
defined in my xorg.conf.

Ritesh

On Feb 11, 2008 7:30 AM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 10, 2008 11:07 PM, Ritesh Sood <riteshsood at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >  On Feb 10, 2008 1:28 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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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