Radeon driver challenge - the Acer Ferrari 4000 laptop

[Erwin Rol]

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 22:31 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le mercredi 08 février 2006 à 22:14 +0100, Erwin Rol a écrit :
> > On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 22:04 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > Le mercredi 08 février 2006 à 09:40 -0500, Alex Deucher a écrit :
> > > 
> > > > 2ndary DVI is not currently supported by the radeon driver since we
> > > > need code to detect and set up the external tmds transmitter via i2c. 
> > > > I messed with it a while ago, but never got it working.
> > > 
> > > Well, you're right xorg says :
> > > 
> > > (WW) RADEON(0): Invalid Monitor type specified for 2nd port
> > > (**) RADEON(0): MonitorLayout Option:
> > >         Monitor1--Type TDMS, Monitor2--Type TDMS
> > > 
> > 
> > What happens when you us "Auto, Auto" as MonitorLayout option, and start
> > X with the monitors attached, that seemed to work on my FireMV, maybe it
> > does something for your setup too ?
> 
> Does not seem to work better:
> 
> (II) RADEON(0): I2C bus "DDC" initialized.
> (II) RADEON(0): ATOM BIOS detected
> (II) RADEON(0): Port0: DDCType-0, DACType-0, TMDSType-1, ConnectorType-2
> (II) RADEON(0): Port1: DDCType-2, DACType-1, TMDSType-0, ConnectorType-2
> (**) RADEON(0): IgnoreEDID is specified, EDID data will be ignored
> (WW) RADEON(0): Invalid Monitor type specified for 2nd port
> (**) RADEON(0): MonitorLayout Option:
>         Monitor1--Type Auto, Monitor2--Type Auto
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something?

What happens if you remove the 

Option	    "IgnoreEDID" "yes"

line ?

- Erwin