FW: Problem in clone mode with two display card
Ashish Jain
ashish.jain at nechclst.in
Thu Aug 14 02:15:13 PDT 2008
Dear Alan,
Please find attached log files and xorg.conf file related to i810 and
ati drivers.
Kindly let us know your comments.
Thanks & Regards
Ashish Jain
________________________________
From: Alan Hourihane [mailto:alanh at fairlite.co.uk]
Sent: Wed 8/13/2008 9:56 PM
To: Deepak Bhatia
Cc: Alex Deucher; xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: RE: Problem in clone mode with two display card
Sending a log file would help us find out what the actual problem is
though.
Alan.
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 21:30 +0530, Deepak Bhatia wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Yes, we are trying to use ATI Card and Intel Card at the same time for
> different configurations using two monitors.
> 1. Clone
> 2. Expand
> 3. Independent
>
> When we specify the i810 driver in the device section as Card1 and ati
> driver in the device section as Card0, things are going fine.
>
> But if replace i810 by intel in the device section, things are not
> working. We thought that intel is the latest driver than i810.
>
> Please suggest us what to do as currently we are sticking to i810.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Deepak Bhatia
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Deucher [mailto:alexdeucher at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:20 PM
> To: Deepak Bhatia
> Cc: Alan Hourihane; xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: Problem in clone mode with two display card
>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 5:08 AM, Deepak Bhatia
> <deepak.bhatia at nechclst.in> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Alan,
> >
> > In case we replace the i810 below in the "Device" section by
"intel".
> > Then none of the multimonitor modes work with ATI Card.
> >
>
> Are you trying to use the intel card and the ati card at the same
time?
>
> Alex
>
> > Kindly let us know why this is happening.
> >
> > Section "Device"
> > Identifier "Card1"
> > Driver "i810"
> > VendorName "Intel Corporation"
> > BoardName "Integrated Graphics Controller"
> > BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Device"
> > Identifier "Card0"
> > Driver "ati"
> > VendorName "ATI"
> > BoardName "Rage Mobility P/M"
> > ChipSet "ati"
> > ChipId 0x4c52
> > ChipRev 0x64
> > BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Best Regards
> >
> > Deepak Bhatia
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xorg-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org
> > [mailto:xorg-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Alan
> Hourihane
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 1:40 PM
> > To: Ashish Jain
> > Cc: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> > Subject: RE: Problem in clone mode with two display card
> >
> > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 10:45 +0530, Ashish Jain wrote:
> >> Dear Alan,
> >>
> >> Thanks, we have achieved Clone mode.
> >>
> >> But I have few queries,
> >>
> >> 1. When we are trying dual head on laptop (HP laptop which have
Intel
> >> display card with to port) for driver "i810" then we will have to
> >> specifically add the line " Option "MonitorLayout" "CRT,LFP" " in
> >> "Device" section. But when we are trying dual head on same laptop
for
> >> driver "intel" then above line is not required. Why?
> >
> > The i810 driver uses the BIOS and that older driver requires some
> manual
> > configuration. The intel driver uses the new randr extension and can
> > detect when monitors are attached.
> >
> >> 2. When we are trying clone mode on laptop (HP laptop which have
> Intel
> >> display card with to port) then we will have to specifically add
the
> >> line "Option "Clone" "True" " in all the "Device" sections. But
when
> > we
> >> are trying Clone mode on desktop with two display card then above
> line
> >> is not required. Why?
> >
> > Because the Clone option is controlling a single card and it needs
to
> > know when do display cloning.
> >
> >> 3. Finally, are the settings of xorg.conf file changed according to
> >> setuation? Means setting of xorg.conf files depends upon drive used
> or
> >> laptop/desktop used or hardware (like display card, monitor, etc.)
> > used.
> >
> > Yes, but that's virtually gone with the new Xserver 1.3 and RandR
1.2
> as
> > it's pretty much all dynamic now.
> >
> > Alan.
> >
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