Bug#327099: Xserver-xorg radeon dual head monitor detection problem

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

merge 327098 327099
thanks

On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 18:08 +0200, Jan Nielsen wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg
> Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6
> 
> Upgrading from XFree86 to Xorg broke my dual head xinerama setup. This same
> setup worked perfectly well with XFree86 4.3

[...]

> The following is the relevant info from Xorg.0.log:

It isn't always immediately obvious which parts are relevant. Please
consider using the reportbug tool, which will include pretty much all
the information that could be relevant.


> (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 -- DVI-I
>   DAC Type  -- TVDAC/ExtDAC
>   TMDS Type -- Internal
>   DDC Type  -- DVI_DDC
> ...
> (WW) RADEON(0): Failed to detect secondary monitor, MergedFB/Clone mode disabled
> ...
> (WW) RADEON(1): Only one monitor detected, Second screen will NOT be created

FWIW, you should be able to work around this using something like

	Option	"MonitorLayout" "CRT,CRT"

See the radeon(4x) manpage.


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