Bug#360879: xserver-xorg: Xorg's radeon driver does not seemto support DVI on docking station
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 19:14 +0200, Eric Lavarde - Debian Bugs wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 10:06 +0200, Eric Lavarde - Debian Bugs wrote:
> >>
> >> > Please attach log files obtained when starting with
> >> > xorg.conf.200602171936, both when docked and not.
> >> Here it is! File names should be obvious.
> >
> > Thanks. Apparently, the driver only detects the internal display in both
> > cases. You're saying neither case works with this config file? Does it
> > make a difference if it's already docked on bootup? Or if you use Option
> > "MonitorLayout" "TMDS" when docked?
> No, it works undocked. When docked, the external screen doesn't show any
> picture, but X seems happy with it (not me!), so that I assume it shows
> something on the internal (closed) LCD.
> But I can try the option.
Please do, and/or boot the machine docked.
> >> >> Option "MonitorLayout" "TMDS,LVDS"
> >> >
> >> > This combination can't work currently because the driver doesn't
> >> support
> >> > external TMDS chips yet (the Radeon chip only has one TMDS unit
> >> > integrated, which is used for the internal display).
> >> Well, it's not explained in radeon(1).
> >
> > You may want to look at
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3621 . Unfortunately, it
> > looks like LVDS+TMDS is still not working with the superpatch referenced
> > there.
> Eerg, you mean patching, recompiling, etc... ? Hmpf, need to think about
> it, especially where you complain in there about regression issues :->
> (it's my work laptop, so I'm not too keen to test too much on it)
Shouldn't be too bad with xserver-xorg-video-ati now in sid, but suit
yourself. :)
> > Speaking of upstream bugzilla, you may want to report this problem there
> > as well, assuming it hasn't yet.
> Sounds like the bug you pointed me to is the potential solution to the
> issue, no? (I'm referring to: "- LVDS + internal TMDS. if you have a
> laptop or docking station with LVDS and a DVI port, ...")
Yes, once that works, at least Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,TMDS" should
work. Autodetection of the docking station may be a different story
though.
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