xrandr not happy about external monitor

[Alex Deucher]

On Jan 27, 2008 8:08 PM, Michele Mattioni <mattions at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I have a laptop with a Mobility 9000 radeon and an external monitor
> form Acer 22inches.
>
> I'm using an ubuntu gutsy and the version of the xserver-xorg-video-ati is
> 1:6.7.195-1ubuntu2
>
> xrandr detect correctly the monitor:
>
> [mattions at the-tux:~]$ xrandr -q
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 1680 x 1200
> VGA-0 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 474mm x 296mm
>   1680x1050      60.0*+   60.0
>   1600x1200      59.9
>   1280x1024      75.0     59.9
>   1440x900       75.0     59.9
>   1280x960       59.9
>   1280x720       59.9
>   1024x768       75.1     70.1     60.0
>   832x624        74.6     74.8
>   800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2
>   640x480        75.0     72.8     66.7     60.0
>   720x400        70.1
> LVDS connected 1400x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 0mm x 0mm
>   1400x1050      61.8*+
>   1280x800       60.0
>   1280x768       60.0
>   1024x768       60.0
>   800x600        60.3
>   640x480        59.9
> S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right)
>
> However I can't see any image on the screen.
> The screen is somehow blue, and if I give the instruction like
> [mattions at the-tux:~]$ xrandr --output VGA-0 --off
>
> the screen turns black.
> So I guess it's responding.
>
> My Xorg log is here:
> http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~mattioni/log/Xorg.0.log
> Do you have any idea?

This sounds like a sync polarity issue.  Do any other modes on your
monitor work?  According to your log, you have two 1680x1050 modes
with different polarities:
>   1680x1050      60.0*+   60.0
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1680x1050"x60.0  146.25  1680 1784 1960 2240
 1050 1053 1059 1089 +hsync -vsync (65.3 kHz)
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1680x1050"x60.0  146.25  1680 1784 1960 2240
 1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync (65.3 kHz)
see if switching to the other one makes the monitor work (use xrandr
--verbose to look up the mode ids).

Alex