Ati Radeon Mobility 9000 2 port from Colorgraphics question

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:20:38 -0400, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:09:57 -0400, Kaczmarek, Thaddeus
> <tkaczmar at crownfin.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 15:50, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > > On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:33:01 -0400, Kaczmarek, Thaddeus
> > > <tkaczmar at crownfin.com> wrote:
> > > > I was testing a Colorgraphics two port card based upon ATI Radeon
> > > > Mobility 9000 M9. Its Bus id's show up as
> > > >
> > > > (2:2:0) unknown card (0x130b/0x2512) using a ATI Technologies Inc Radeon
> > > > R250 Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9]
> > > > (2:2:1) unknown card (0x130b/0x2513) using a ATI Technologies Inc Radeon
> > > > R250 Ln [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9] [Secondary]
> > >
> > > pay no attention to the secondary PCI id.  it's just a placeholder for
> > > the windows drivers.  when configuring multihead just use the primary
> > > id for both devices.
> > >
> > > Alex
> >
> > If I use
> >
> > Section "Device"
> >         Identifier  "Videocard0"
> >         BusID       "PCI:2:2:0"
> >         Driver      "ati"
> >         VendorName  "Radeon Mobility 9000"
> >         BusID       "PCI:2:2:0"
> >         Screen 0
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Device"
> >         Identifier  "Videocard1"
> >         Driver      "ati"
> >         VendorName  "Radeon Mobility 9000"
> >         BusID       "PCI:2:2:0"
> >         Screen 1
> > EndSection
> >
> > I still only get the display duped in both monitors.
> > I tried without
> > Screen 0
> > and
> > Screen 1
> > specified in device section as well, still no joy. Screen 0 and Screen 1 are
> > always duplicates.
> >
> > Also saw a similar type thing when testing with a Matrox G550, could only
> > get duplicate
> > screens, but it only showed one BusID.
> >
> > I am using the same basic configs outside of the device section for
> > Videocards that works up to a four head setup.
> > But those where using the older Colorgraphics cards based on cirrus.
> >
> > Anything else I may be doing wrong?
> 
> Anything odd in your log?  perhaps the heads are not detected
> properly.  What sort of outputs does it have? vga? dvi? you may need
> to force the outputs using the "monitorlayout" option if they are not
> detected properly.
> e.g., for two crts use:
> Option "monitorlayout" "crt,crt"
> for dvi plus crt:
> Option "monitorlayout" "crt,crt"

sorry I meant:
Option "monitorlayout" "tmds,crt"
here

> 
> See the radeon man page for more.
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
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> >
> >
> > Ted
> >
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