Re: Debian Unstable, and Thinkpad X31 with Radeon Mobility

[Johannes Wolter <j@inutil.org>]

Hi,

On Friday 31 March 2006 21:23, Zoont Foomby wrote:
> I've been running Debian unstable on my Thinkpad X31 laptop for almost two
> years. In general it works great.

I've an X31 too and I'm using xserver-xorg (6.9.0.dfsg.1-4) successfully with 
mergedfb.

> > (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
>
> > (--) Chipset ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY (AGP) found
> > (--) Chipset ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY (AGP) found

The same in my  log:
> > (II) RADEON(0): LVDS port is not in connector table, added in.
> > (II) RADEON(0): Connector0: DDCType-0, DACType-1, TMDSType--1,
> > ConnectorType-1
> > (II) RADEON(0): Connector1: DDCType-3, DACType-0, TMDSType--1,
> > ConnectorType-2

Here I found the log message:
> (**) RADEON(0): MonitorLayout Option:
>        Monitor1--Type LVDS, Monitor2--Type CRT

The same in my  log:
> > (II) RADEON(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
> > (II) RADEON(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" removed.
> > (II) RADEON(0): DDC Type: 3, Detected Type: 1
> > (II) RADEON(0): EDID data from the display on port 1
> > (II) RADEON(0): Manufacturer: NEC  Model: 65d2  Serial#: 16843009

Here it differs:
> (II) RADEON(0): EDID data from the display on port 2-----------------------
> (II) RADEON(0): Manufacturer: HSL  Model: 774  Serial#: 1747

> > (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 -- Proprietary
> >  DAC Type  -- TVDAC/ExtDAC
> >  TMDS Type -- NONE
> >  DDC Type  -- NONE
> > (II) RADEON(0): PLL parameters: rf=2700 rd=60 min=12000 max=35000;
> > xclk=14400
> > (WW) RADEON(0): Failed to detect secondary monitor, MergedFB/Clone mode
> > disabled

and
> (II) RADEON(0): Primary:
>  Monitor   -- LVDS
>  Connector -- DVI-I
>  DAC Type  -- TVDAC/ExtDAC
>  TMDS Type -- NONE
>  DDC Type  -- NONE
> (II) RADEON(0): Secondary:
>  Monitor   -- CRT
>  Connector -- VGA
>  DAC Type  -- Primary
>  TMDS Type -- NONE
>  DDC Type  -- VGA_DDC
> (II) RADEON(0): PLL parameters: rf=2700 rd=60 min=12000 max=35000;
> xclk=14400 (II) RADEON(0): MergedFB mode forced on.

The reason, why it works for me is maybe the slightly different model (NEC65d2 
vs. HSL774) or we have different x.org configurations. Maybe you could sent 
your config file, so I can compare it with mine.

Johannes