intel driver with ADD2 card - getting dual independent displays working

Dan Naughton daniel.naughton at gmail.com
Wed Dec 12 14:36:39 PST 2007


I've been at this for a few hours, I have both DVIs from the ADD2 card
working in clone mode, but I can't get them to work independently.
There is one snippet in the Xorg.0.log file that looks suspicious:


(II) intel(0): Output configuration:
(II) intel(0):   Pipe A is on
(II) intel(0):   Display plane A is now enabled and connected to pipe A.
(II) intel(0):   Pipe B is off
(II) intel(0):   Display plane B is now disabled and connected to pipe B.
(II) intel(0):   Output TMDS-1 is connected to pipe A
(II) intel(0):   Output TMDS-2 is connected to pipe A
(II) intel(0):   Output TV is connected to pipe none

I think I want it to say : Output TMDS-2 is connected to pipe B

I can't find anything anywhere that says what TMDS-1,2 are.  I was
assuming in was SDVO 1&2 from the ADD2 card.  I think that's all
that's left.  My motherboard has has the 945GM on it with VGA,LVDS,TV
and the two SDVO outputs.  I think I shut off the VGA and LVDS screens
with the "bogus" screen section.


xorg.conf for reference:

# Xorg configuration

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default layout"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        Screen 0        "Screen0"
        Screen 1        "Screen1"
        Option      "Xinerama" "on"
        Option      "Clone" "off"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us+inet"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor1"
        VendorName   "Envision"
        ModelName    "LCD Panel 1440x900"
        HorizSync    31.5 - 56.0
        VertRefresh  56.0 - 65.0
        Option      "dpms"
        Option          "RightOf"  "Monitor0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Envision"
        ModelName    "LCD Panel 1440x900"
        HorizSync    31.5 - 56.0
        VertRefresh  56.0 - 65.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "LVDS Interface"
        Option "ignore" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "VGA Interface"
        Option "ignore" "true"
EndSection


Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Intel 945GM"
        Driver      "intel"
        Option "monitor-TMDS-0" "Monitor0"
        Option "monitor-TDMS-1" "Monitor1"
        Option "monitor-LVDS" "LVDS Interface"
        Option "monitor-VGA" "VGA Interface"
#       Option "MonitorLayout"  "DFP,DFP2"
#  This options is in the docs, but gets ignored in the log files.
# Valid monitors are CRT, LFP, DFP, TV, CRT2, LFP2, DFP2, TV2 and NONE.
EndSection


Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Monitor         "Monitor0"
        Device     "Intel 945GM"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen1"
        Device     "Intel 945GM"
        Monitor    "Monitor1"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection



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