Second monitor blank with radeon, works with vesa

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Sun Feb 10 13:28:31 PST 2008


On Feb 10, 2008 1:37 PM, Ritesh Sood <riteshsood at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>           I'm using the radeon driver with two monitors. Problem is that the
> second monitor goes blank. I've been having this
> problem ever since updating and building the xfree86-video-ati  git source
> some two-three weeks ago. The problem has persisted
>  even after regularly updating  and building the source  as soon as new code
> is checked into git.  My card is the  Radeon 9200. Both monitors
> come on with the vesa driver (its slow and it's clone mode so pretty
> unusable). The rest of the Xorg components, libs, xserver, etc are built
> from the latest git source also, so i'm pretty sure the problem is with the
> radeon driver.
>          xorg.cong and log files are attached.
>

Which monitor works, the one attached to the VGA port or the DVI port?
 For the non-working monitor, do any modes other than 1280x1024 work?
What about other 1280x1024 modes?  You can use xrandr to change the
modes.


Alex



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