945GM and multiscreen

[Frédéric MAZUR]

I tried this, and it works better. I had not seen this last line in
intellinuxgraphics documentation. Now, when I configure monitor-LVDS
with option "ignore" to "true" , LVDS output is well disabled, but I
have now these lines in Xorg.log :
 
(II) intel(0): Output VGA connected
(II) intel(0): Output TV connected
(II) intel(0): Output VGA using initial mode 1280x1024
(II) intel(0): Output TV enabled but has no modes
 
and further
 
(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 VGA is connected to pipe A
(II) intel(0): Output TV is connected to pipe none
 
I probably suppose that if Output TV has no modes, the driver
automatically puts Output TV to pipe none (= no pipe), and if I want the
driver puts Output TV on pipe B, I have to configure a mode for my TV
output.
 
But there's a problem :  Whatever any mode I configure for any Output,
It doesn't change anything. Output VGA still stays in 1280x1024,  even
if I configure with the following lines :
 
Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device "Card0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    SubSection "Display"
        depth 24
        modes "800x600" (or "1024x768", "640x480")
    EndSubSection
EndSection
 
The only way I found is to force lower Refresh Values on VGAMonitor
configuration.
 
And concerning TV Output, I didn't find how to select a mode for it.
Whatever the configuration which I test, I still remain on "(II)
intel(0): Output TV enabled but has no modes".
 
Thank you for your fast answer anyway :)
 

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Dmitry Babrovich [mailto:Dmitry.Babrovich at densitrongaming.com] 
Envoyé : jeudi 20 septembre 2007 11:58
À : Frederic MAZUR
Cc : xorg at freedesktop.org
Objet : RE: 945GM and multiscreen


Dear Frederic
 
If you are using intel driver then you need to follow this manual
http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/dualhead.html. In order to disable
LVDS so it does not get a pipe assigned to it, you would need to specify
Option "monitor-LVDS" "LVDSMon" in device section and create monitor
section  with LVDSMon identifier. Within the section you need to specify
option "Ïgnore" set to "true". You might also need to set option
"Enable" to "false" if the first option does not work.

 
 

Dmitry 
[Dmitry Babrovich] 

 -----Original Message-----
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[mailto:xorg-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Frederic MAZUR
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 9:31 AM
To: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: [spam] 945GM and multiscreen



Hi,
 
I have some problems configuring my Xorg Server with 945HM graphic
chipset. I compiled Xorg 7.3 version and I didn't succeed in making
simultaneously CRT Output and TV Output. Only CRT, or Only TV works
independently. I tried some options ,described in the documentation on
the web site  <http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org>
www.intellinuxgraphics.org , like "MonitorLayout" :
 
(Option "MonitorLayout" "anystr"Allow different monitor configurations.
e.g. "CRT,LFP" will configure a CRT on Pipe A and an LFP on Pipe B.
Regardless of the primary heads' pipe it is always configured as
"<PIPEA>,<PIPEB>". Additionally you can add different configurations
such as "CRT+DFP,LFP" which would put a digital flat panel and a CRT on
pipe A, and a local flat panel on pipe B.For single pipe configurations
you can just specify the monitors typeson Pipe A, such as "CRT+DFP"
which will enable the CRT and DFPon Pipe A.Valid monitors are CRT, LFP,
DFP, TV, CRT2, LFP2, DFP2, TV2 and NONE.NOTE: Some configurations of
monitor types may fail, this depends onthe Video BIOS and system
configuration.Default: Not configured, and will use the current head's
pipe and monitor. )
 
But when I use this option in my "Device" Section, I have these lines in
XOrg.log : 
 
(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 on
(II) intel(0): Display plane B is now enabled and connected to pipe B
(II) intel(0): Output VGA is connected to pipe A
(II) intel(0): Output LVDS is connected to pipe B
(II) intel(0): Output TV is connected to pipe none

(WW) intel(0): Option "MonitorLayout" is not used. 
 
 
And whatever the combination which I puts, that does not change anything
: Option "MonitorLayout" "CRT,TV" or "CRT+TV" (or  anything else)
doesn't change anything. And I have always CRT on Pipe A , and LVDS on
Pipe B. Sometimes, when I use others parameters for Monitor
Configuration (TV parameters for example), Pipe A goes automatically on
TV, and if I restore my CRT Monitor parameters for monitor
configuration, Pipe A goes again on CRT. Pipe B never change. I supposed
there is into driver source code a function that determine automatically
which pipe on which output, but I want to fix manually (like
monitorlayout would do it) Pipe A on CRT and Pipe B on TV (Don't need
LVDS).
 
In order to test the multi screen fonctionnality , I try to remove LVDS
initialisation in intel driver source code. I commented these lines
(i830_driver.c:746) :
 
if (IS_MOBILE(pI830) && !IS_I830(pI830))
    i830_lvds_init(pScrn);
 
And now, it works better. Intel driver find only 2 outputs (CRT and TV)
, so It automatically puts CRT on Pipe A and TV on Pipe B and I have my
2 images well on each monitors. But I don't like this solution, and I
will prefer to have the good configuration lines to do that.
 
Maybe anyone knows the solution ?
 
 
Thanks :)
 
F. MAZUR.
 

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