ATI Radeon 7500 Mobile (On Dell 5100) with External Monitor

[bob franken]

>From: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
>
>On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:26:25 -0500, bob franken <zonyl at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > > Enabling the MonitorLayout allows the LCD to show up when the ext
> > >monitor is
> > > > displayed, however, I still get no video on the ext monitor.   At a 
>high
> > > > level, I am just trying to use my ext monitor (NEC: G90FB) with my
> > >laptop
> > > > (in clone mode) when docked.
> > > >
> > > > new config (with MonitorLayout and MergedFB enabled):
> > > > http://www.sharpee.com/xorg.conf.merged
> > > >
> > > > new out:
> > > > http://www.sharpee.com/mergedfb.out
> > > >
> >
> > Is there some sort of power saving code in xorg that tries to determine 
>if
> > an external monitor signal is not seen to power down the port?
>
>no.  the port should be enabled if you force the monitor type.
>
> >
> > It runs dual headed in Windows and under AccelX,  is there a utility I 
>can
> > run to dump the registers of the video controller and compare with that
> > under xorg?
>
>http://www.botchco.com/alex/radeon/mergedfb/cvs/DRI/hy0/radeon_dump.tgz
>

Getting AccelX to run dual head was a little touchy this time around, but I 
eventually got it working for the dump.

Here are my dump results ( AccelX is able to display dual head, X org is not 
)

No X running, bootup in non-fb console mode:
http://www.sharpee.com/b4.txt

AccelX Summit 2.2
http://www.sharpee.com/accelx.txt

Xorg 6.8.2
http://www.sharpee.com/xorg.txt

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