Bug#198447: G450 Dual-Head: Second Monitor I2C Detection Happening Incorrectly
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 06:02:22PM -0500, Jason Bucata wrote:
> I have two different monitors that I'm trying to use in a dual-head
> configuration, if only just to experiment with it. The I2C monitor info
> detection isn't working on the second head. In the logs, I see it
> detecting the first monitor twice, so that it assumes that I have two
> identical monitors.
Just as a data point, Debian's X has behaved like this for a long time.
Both my dual-head 400 and my dual-head 450 exhibited this behavior. So
does my G550 (not currently installed anywhere or I'd verify if it still
did).
Thinking back, I believe that the reason I did not file a bug on it was
that I'd brought it up on Matrox's own forum (I was having other dual-head
issues that were hardware-related), and the moderator there told me that
it was a hardware limitation of the card in some way. Perhaps I should
have anyway.
Anyone who's ever participated in Matrox's forum knows that usually details
are usually somewhat... lacking.
> The explicit frequency settings in the configuration file appear to be
> ignored.
I got around this by explicitly disabling I2C on both heads. I knew
perfectly well what the specifications of my monitors were... I didn't
need X to figure it out for me. ^_^
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