Problem: Dual DVI radeon 9600 - second monitor on but blank

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Tue Nov 23 21:07:13 PST 2004


On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:08:21 +0000, Jez Humble <jez at india.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex
> 
> >Don't turn dpms off.  try ' xset dpms force off '  or it's equivalent
> >to put the monitors into powersave mode then wake them back up.
> >Also try adding:
> >Option "MonitorLayout" "TMDS, TMDS"
> >to your config since you have two DVI ports not a DVI and a vga port.
> >
> >
> The xset trick worked.
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 

In that case your bug is a duplicate of 1666.  something must not be
initialized properly on the initial mode set, but then gets properly
set on a dpms on event.

Alex

> All the best,
> 
> Jez.
>



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