Re: Dual head problems in Etch k7 kernel
On Oct 17, 6:30 am, Dancing Fingers <batym...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 17, 3:50 am, Sjoerd Hardeman <sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl>
> wrote:
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>
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> > Andrew Sackville-West schreef:
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> > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 08:43:44AM -0700, Dancing Fingers wrote:
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> > >> On Oct 16, 10:40 am, Andrew Sackville-West
> > >> <and...@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
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> > >>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 06:15:50AM -0700, Dancing Fingers wrote:
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> > >>>> 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:
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> > > 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
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> > >> (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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> I tried changing the bus id's on both heads without luck. The curious
> thing is that if I Gnome Control Center>>Screen Resolution it will
> pop up:
> The X Server does not support the XRandR extension. Runtime
> resolution changes to the display size are not available.
> Thanks for the help.
> Chris
>
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Eureka, I found it! All I had to do was
aticonfig --initial=dual-head
on the command line. Hope this helps someone else.
Chris
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