Bug#444223: xserver-xorg-video-ati: RS480 (radeon express X200G series): display goes to sleep after upgrade to latest unstable/sid

["Alex Deucher" <alexdeucher@gmail.com>]

On 10/7/07, Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > > This is a desktop PC, hp dx5150MT.  It has DVI-out and D-sub analogue
> > > output; which DVI is connected to the display.
> > >
> >
> > The connector table in your bios seems to be either broken or in some
> > currently unsupported format.  The following option should get things
> > working for you:
> >
> > Option "ConnectorTable" "X,2,1,4,Y,1,2,2"
> >
> > where X and Y numbers between 1 and 5 and are not  equal.  X and Y
> > specify the ddc lines for each connector, so if you want to get an
> > edid from your monitor, you'll need to figure out what line the
> > connector uses.
>
> I tried all possible cases with
>
> for A in 1 2 3 4 5; do for B in 1 2 3 4 5; do sed  "s/ConnectorTable\" .*/ConnectorTable\" \"$A,2,1,4,$B,1,2,2\"/" < /etc/X11/xorg.conf-template20071008 > /etc/X11/xorg.conf ; X; cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log Xorg.log.$A.$B;  done ; done
>
> and they all faied to start. I don't quite understand what this
> ConnectorTable option should do and I don't quite understand what is
> really wrong with this setup.

For whatever reason DDC tends to be unreliable on XPRESS chips.    I
think it may be a clock issue.  Without DDC, the server is not able to
find any modes for the output.  you'll have to add a monitor section
and link it with the output in question.  see this page for more:
http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/dualhead.html
then add modelines for your monitor
something like:

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"ATI Technologies Inc RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G Series]"
	Driver		"radeon"
	Option "DRI" "false"
	BusID		"PCI:1:5:0"
	#Option "Monitor-LVDS" "Generic Monitor"
	Option "ConnectorTable" "5,2,1,4,5,1,2,2"
        Option "monitor-DVI-0" "Generic Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Generic Monitor"
	Option		"DPMS"
        Option "Enable"  "TRUE"
	HorizSync	30-100
	VertRefresh	50-61
Modeline "1280x1024"  109.00  1280 1368 1496 1712  1024 1027 1034 1063
-hsync +vsync
EndSection

Alex