xf86-video-ati, XRandR 1.2, and what used to be MergedFB

[Alex Deucher]

On 9/17/07, Marius Groeger <mgroeger at sysgo.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Jan Willies wrote:
>
> > Section "Device"
> >       [...]
> >          Option          "monitor-S-video"       "TV"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Monitor"
> >          Identifier      "TV"
> >          Option          "Enable"        "FALSE"
> > EndSection
>
> Yes, I have found this by now but it didn't do the trick.
>
> > > But the real problem is that the VGA consistenly remains dark, even if
> > > enabled via xrandr. Do you have a hint for this problem? Without this,
> > > the driver is unusable in a dual head setup. :-(
> >
> > I had the same trouble. For me it works only when disabling S-video
> > first and xrandr. this is my script in .xinitrc (you don't need the
> > modeline and addmode thingie I guess, it's because my monitor reports
> > faulty DDC values):
> >
> > xrandr --output S-video --off
> > xrandr --newmode "1440x900"  106.50  1440 1528 1672 1904  900 903 909
> > 934 -hsync +vsync
> > xrandr --addmode VGA-0 1440x900
> > xrandr --output VGA-0 --auto
> > xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1440x900
> > xrandr --output VGA-0 --right-of LVDS
> >
> > it's the only solution I have found so far. Disabling via xorg.conf
> > didn't work for me. See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12392
>
> Well, as I posted a couple of times now, this sequence just doesn't
> work here. It's as if there is a magic enable bit missing to in the
> display controller code, but I can't seem find it.

post your xorg log and config and the output of xrandr after disabling
the s-video port and enabling the vga port.

Alex