Re: Dual head problems in Etch k7 kernel
Andrew Sackville-West schreef:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 08:43:44AM -0700, Dancing Fingers wrote:
>
>> On Oct 16, 10:40 am, Andrew Sackville-West
>> <and...@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 06:15:50AM -0700, Dancing Fingers wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>> I have an dual-head ATI AGP card that I had working great on my AMD64
>>>> box, except for a square mouse one side (which I could live with. But
>>>> I wanted to view Flash stuff which isn't supported in AMD64 yet so I
>>>> put the card in my Athlon box. I copied over the same xorg.conf file
>>>> but all I get is 2 views of the same thing.
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
>>> ummm... you could provide useful stuff like xorg.conf and maybe a copy
>>> of /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
>>>
>>>
>> Sorry, this is xorg.conf:
>>
>>
>
> To my weak eyes, this all looks relatively okay, and I'm not familiar
> with your card or the ati driver, but I see one thing that *might*
> point to the problem:
>
>
>> Section "Device"
>> Identifier "0 ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550]"
>> Driver "ati"
>> BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
>> Screen 0
>> Option "DDCMode" "True"
>> Option "MonitorLayout" "primary monitor,secondary monitor"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Device"
>> Identifier "1 ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550]"
>> Driver "ati"
>> BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
>> Screen 1
>> #Option "DDCMode" "True"
>> #Option "MonitorLayout" "primary monitor,secondary monitor"
>> EndSection
>>
>
> you've given the two outputs the same BusID (which makes sense as its
> one card, right?) but...
>
> snipped from Xorg.0.log
>
>> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
>> (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "0 ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS
>> [Radeon 9550]".
>> (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "1 ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS
>> [Radeon 9550]".
>> (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1)
>> found
>>
>
> seems to suggest that the other output *may* be on a different
> BusID. This may be a difference between the two architectures. A look
> at lspci would help. it may be that in AMD64 the card shows up as one
> device and in the athlon it shows up as two.
>
> that's my .02
>
> A
>
On my Athlon box this is the case. Although it is just one card, it has
two BusID's. Changing that will probably solve your problem.
Sjoerd
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