Radeon driver challenge - the Acer Ferrari 4000 laptop

[Alex Deucher]

On 2/8/06, Erwin Rol <mailinglists at erwinrol.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 19:12 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
>
> > none of this applies unfortunately.  the above link only works for
> > LVDS+TMDS and no setting of auto, etc. will help either since there is
> > no code in the driver to activate the external TMDS controller. until
> > someone writes that code, dual DVI won't work.
>
> Does that apply to _all_ radeon cards, for example also to my FireMV
> 2400  (that has two M9 chips) ? With two CRT's it does work, and the
> card only has 4 DVI-I outputs. Currently I don't have any DVI monitors
> to test though :-/ With the "Auto, Auto" setting I do get the CRT's to
> work, the output in Xorg.0.log is than as follows, which does say
> something about an external TMDS;

yes.  radeons only have one built-in TMDS controller.

Alex