Radeon Driver Default Display Resolution

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Hamish <hamish at travellingkiwi.com> wrote:
> On Monday 31 March 2008 15:07:44 Hamish wrote:
>  > On Sunday 30 March 2008 14:38:47 you wrote:
>  > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Hamish <hamish at travellingkiwi.com> wrote:
>  > > > On Monday 24 March 2008 14:12:33 Alex Deucher wrote:
>  > > >  > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Greg Treantos <gtreanto at gmail.com>
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>  > wrote:
>  > > >  > > Thanks Alex adding the modelines worked. I tried Beso's suggestion
>  > > >  > > first without success. I have 2 follow up questions,
>  > > >  > >
>  > > >  > > 1) What changed in 7.3 that caused this issue?
>  > > >  >
>  > > >  > The radeon driver got xrandr 1.2 support.  Previous versions of the
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>  > > >  > http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/dualhead.html
>  > > >
>  > > >  Sorry to appropriate the thread, but I'm also running gentoo, and
>  > > > having a VERY similar problem with my setup (Dual monitors, X300
>  > > > graphics, xorg ati/radeon drivers, 1024x768 VGA-0 LCD on left,
>  > > > 1680x1050 DVI-0 LCD on right).
>  > > >
>  > > >  In my case the Xorg log file shows the modes being probed for the two
>  > > >  monitors... I've also been through the intelligraphics page and tried
>  > > > to setup for static config... BUt mine still comes up with 1024x768 on
>  > > > both monitors and requires xrandr to set 1680x1050 on the large
>  > > > monitor...
>  > >
>  > > The "PreferredMode" option did not properly work with xserver 1.3  By
>  > > default xrandr tries to pick the closest mode possible supported by
>  > > each monitor rather than the preferred modes.
>  >
>  > Thanks Alex. I'll try 1.4 & see how that goes.
>  >
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>  Hmm... 1.4 seems to be a bust... On my system xorg 1.4 (Gentoo ~amd64
>  x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.0.90-r3) sulks if you have an 'Option PreferredMode
>  1680 1050' statement on the DVI-0 monitor... The logs show it starting &
>  running, but there's nothing on the display (A signal seems to be output
>  though because the monitor doesn't goto sleep) and there's a 50:50 chance of
>  the keyboard being working or mostly working (50% working, 50% seems to be
>  unresponsive, no numlock light toggling, but CTRL-ALT-DEL seemed to still
>  work).

It's:
Option "PreferredMode" "1680x1050"
not
Option PreferredMode 1680 1050

Also note that if you do not have a 1680x1050 mode for that output you
may have to specify a modeline in the monitor section of your config.

Alex

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>  > On the same vein... I find my X600 to be really really slow.. Painfully
>  > slow. Could that be due to too a large desktop (2704x1050)? Or am I doing
>  > something wrong? Is an X600 just a slow card? I thought it should be good
>  > enought for compiz even... But only if you're prepared for several seconds
>  > wait whenever focus changes...
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