Bug#437332: xserver-xorg-video-ati: Failed to detect secondary monitor, MergedFB/Clone mode disabled

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

retitle 437332 xserver-xorg-video-ati: Failed to detect secondary monitor (VGA TV) on XPRESS 200M
thank you




Alberto Mardegan wrote:
> My Samsung television, which is connected to my laptop through a VGA
> cable, doesn't show any output.
> I'm trying the latest version of the driver from debian experimental;
> it is better than the previous, in the sense that at least it detects
> that the secondary monitor is connected through a VGA port, but then
> it doesn't detect the monitor (the TV) itself.

Does this setup work with another monitor? (I mean not a TV, a real
computer monitor)
Does it work with fglrx or another ugly operating system?

> (--) PCI:*(1:5:0) ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955
> (PCIE) rev 0, Mem @ 0xc8000000/27, 0xc0100000/16, I/O @ 0x9000/8

I think the support for this board is very young, I don't know how well
it is supposed to work yet.

You might want to try the randr-1.2 branch instead, I have some packages
if you want to try.

Brice