Dual-screen setup on a Mobility FireGL 7000M7

[Alex Deucher]

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Ludwig Meyerhoff <ludwig at antar.de> wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> I used to have a two-screen setup (0.0 and 0.1) with two device-sections
> respectively. Since I updated Xorg from 1.3.0 to 1.4.2 that setup does
> not work any more.
>
> When I plug in the external TFT to VGA-0, the radeon-driver seems to get
> confused and "forgets" about the other connectors (in special, LVDS).
> xrandr tells me there exists only VGA-0, if the server was not running
> before the plugin.
> If the server was already running when I plug in VGA-0, xrandr detects
> the new monitor and the supported modes correctly.
>
> A look in the Xorg.0.log shows the driver detects the LVDS-panel
> correctly, but then the first instance of the driver "RADEON(0)" says
> DVI-0 is connected, while the second instance "RADEON(1)" says VGA-0 is.
>
>
> In single-screen setup Port0 is VGA, Port1 DVI-D, Port2 LVDS and Port3 STV.
>
> Is there a way to tell the driver instance explicitally what connector
> to use?

Unfortunately, there is no option at this time to do what you are
asking for.  If you want full control of all of your outputs, you'll
have to use xrandr rather than zaphod.

Alex