ati driver dual head 2nd monitor incorrect resolution

John H. mistamaila at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 12 09:31:10 PDT 2004


this is not on a radeon mobile, if that matters.  it's
a 9600se.

Here is my entire xorg.conf.  

I am just wanting to get big desktop mode, with crt
having 1600x1200, and lcd having 1024x768, without
scrolling, that's all:(  LCD is attached to DVI port
with vga->dvi adapter.

 Section "ServerLayout"
         Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen 		0 "Screen0" 0 0
	Screen		1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "Xinerama"
EndSection
 
 Section "Files"
         RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
         ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
         FontPath     "unix/:7100"
 EndSection
 
 Section "Module"
         Load  "record"
         Load  "extmod"
         Load  "dbe"
#         Load  "dri"
         Load  "glx"
#         Load  "xtrap"
#         Load  "freetype"
#         Load  "type1"
         Load  "GLcore"
#        Load  "ddc"
#         Load  "bitmap"
         Load  "vbe"
 EndSection
 
 #Section "Extensions"
 #       Option "Composite" "Enable"
 #EndSection 

 Section "InputDevice"
         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
         Driver      "kbd"
         Option "XkbRules"   "xfree86"
         Option "XkbModel"   "pc105"
         Option "XkbLayout"  "us"
EndSection
 
 Section "InputDevice"
         Identifier  "Mouse0"
         Driver      "mouse"
         Option      "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
         Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
       #  Option "Buttons" "5"
         Option "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
      #  Option "EmulateWheel"  "1"
      #  Option "EmulateWheelButton"  "4"
       #  Option "EmulateWheelInertia"  "10"
 EndSection
 
 Section "Monitor"
         #DisplaySize      360   270     # mm
         Identifier   "CRT"
         VendorName   "CTX"

     HorizSync   30-95
     VertRefresh 50-160
        Option      "DPMS"
 EndSection

 Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "LCD"
    HorizSync   30-61
     VertRefresh 56-76
     Option "DPMS"
 EndSection
 
 Section "Device"
         Identifier  "Card0"
         Driver      "radeon"
         VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName   "RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]"
         BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
         Screen      0
	option "monitorlayout" "crt,crt"
 EndSection

 Section "Device"
         Identifier      "Card1"
         Driver          "radeon"
         BoardName       "RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]"
        Screen          1
        BusId           "PCI:1:0:0"
	option "monitorlayout" "crt,crt"
 EndSection
 
 Section "Screen"
          Identifier "Screen1"
          Device     "Card1"
         Monitor    "CRT"
       DefaultDepth    24
          SubSection "Display"
                  Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024"
"1024x768" "800x600"
                 Depth     24
          EndSubSection
  EndSection

  Section "Screen"
          Identifier "Screen0"
          Device     "Card0"
          Monitor    "LCD"
        DefaultDepth   24
          SubSection "Display"
                  Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
                  Depth     24
          EndSubSection
  EndSection



#Section "DRI"
#	Group        0
#	Mode         0666
#EndSection





--- Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:24:04 -0700 (PDT), John H.
> <mistamaila at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > no good.  Doesn't seem to work.
> > 
> >  Section "Device"
> >          Identifier  "Card0"
> >          Driver      "radeon"
> >          VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
> >         BoardName   "RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]"
> >          BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
> >          Screen      0
> >         option "monitorlayout" "crt,crt"
> >  EndSection
> > 
> >  Section "Device"
> >          Identifier      "Card1"
> >          Driver          "radeon"
> >          BoardName       "RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]"
> >         Screen          1
> >         BusId           "PCI:1:0:0"
> >         option "monitorlayout" "crt,crt"
> >  EndSection
> > 
> > 
> 
> hmmm... regular dualhead may be broken on some
> chipsets do to bugs in
> the new display handling code.  I would have though
> the monitorlayout
> option would force it to work but I guess it may
> not.
> http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1559
> 
> Alex
> 
> > 
> > --- Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:06:21 -0700 (PDT), John
> H.
> > > <mistamaila at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > ok, with current xorg.conf, as you can see
> from
> > > log,
> > > > the 19 inch crt is not even listed.
> > > >
> > > > the fp is connected to dvi port on radeon 9600
> via
> > > vga
> > > > adapter->dvi(it's an analog monitor)
> > > >
> > > > here is log
> > > >
> > > <snip>
> > > > (II) RADEON(0): Primary:
> > > >  Monitor   -- CRT
> > > >  Connector -- VGA
> > > >  DAC Type  -- Primary
> > > >  TMDS Type -- NONE
> > > >  DDC Type  -- VGA_DDC
> > > > (II) RADEON(0): Secondary:
> > > >  Monitor   -- NONE
> > > >  Connector -- DVI-I
> > > >  DAC Type  -- TVDAC/ExtDAC
> > > >  TMDS Type -- Internal
> > > >  DDC Type  -- DVI_DDC
> > >
> > > It's failing to detect the secondary monitor and
> > > thus disabling
> > > dualhead.  try it again with this option:
> > > option "monitorlayout" "crt,crt"
> > > that will force the driver to use both ports.
> > >
> > > Alex
> > >
> > 
> > 
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