Second monitor gets always activated

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Mon Dec 24 08:30:22 PST 2007


On Dec 24, 2007 7:07 AM, Jan Willies <jan at willies.info> wrote:
> Alex Deucher wrote:
> > On Dec 23, 2007 3:41 PM, Jan Willies <jan at willies.info> wrote:
> >> With the new driver 6.7.197 my second monitor is always enabled, regardless if it's hooked up or not. This is the output of xrandr after startx:
> >
> > DDC and load detection do not work reliably yet on XPRESS cards, so we
> > default to unknown since we are not able to reliably detect monitors
> > on those chips.  I hope to fix this soon once I sort out how it needs
> > to be done properly on XPRESS cards.
>
> Ok, good to know. It wasn't enabled with 6.7.195 though.

That's true, but in the interim, several people reported that the
driver failed to come up at all on their card as no outputs were
detected.  As such the fallback as added.

Alex


More information about the xorg-driver-ati mailing list