DVI output not visible on LCD with DVI, VGA output works -- (MergedFB on Ubuntu Edgy, Powerbook G4 ATI radeon 9600 M10)

[Alex Deucher]

On 1/3/07, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/4/07, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You want master.
>
> Cool.
>
> > yes.  Although all you really need to do is grab the xorg devel
> > packages and then you can just download the driver with git and build
> > it directly without rebuilding the whole xserver.
>
> I have  xserver-xorg-dev package, autoconf, m4, all the show, but
> running autogen.sh doesn't get me very far. It dies in the autoreconf
> -v --install stage

There are a bunch of xorg-devel packaged needed (xorg-macros,
mesa-dri, etc.).  If you want to install into your current setup, pass
--prefix=/usr to autogen.sh.  make sure to back up your existing
ati_drv.so and radeon_drv.so before running make install.

>
> martin at aporo-ubuntu:~/src/xf86-video-ati$ bash -x  autogen.sh
> ++ dirname autogen.sh
> + srcdir=.
> + test -z .
> ++ pwd
> + ORIGDIR=/home/martin/src/xf86-video-ati
> + cd .
> + autoreconf -v --install
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal  --output=aclocal.m4t
> aclocal: configure.ac: 228: macro `AM_CFLAGS' not found in library
> autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
> + exit 1
>
> I'll research more this evening. Thanks for the hints!
>
> > git head is only needed for using LVDS (internal laptop panel) and DVI
> > simulatiously.  OTOH, there are some other DVI related fixes that may
> > help so it's worth a try.
>
> Cool -- I'll give it a whirl. Is it easy to get the custom-compiled
> driver loaded by the stock-standard X.org shipped by Ubuntu? [My
> X11-fu is limited, as you can see ;-) ]
>

see above.  just back up your existing driver (in
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/) and run make install.

Alex

> cheers,
>
>
> martin
>