My laptop has a XPRESS 200M Card and I'm using xorg-7.3 (doesn't show up in the version list, so I selected git) with radeon-6.7.192 driver. However my second monitor replies faulty ddc values or xorg doesn't understand it correctly (DDC2/I2C is not properly initialized) and therefore I can't use the monitor with 1440x900 (Not using default mode "1440x900" (hsync out of range)). xrandr -q outputs this: [jan:~]$ xrandr -q Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 2720 x 1700 VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right) 1360x768 59.8 60.0 1280x800 60.0 1152x864 60.0 1280x768 60.0 1280x720 60.0 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 640x480 59.9 LVDS connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 0mm x 0mm 1280x800 60.0*+ 60.0 1280x768 60.0 1280x720 60.0 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 640x480 59.9 S-video connected 800x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 0mm x 0mm 800x600 59.9*+ 60.3 (I don't know where that S-Video comes from, I don't have one) I have tried to force HSync/VRefresh values in my xorg.conf but nothing happens. I attached my Xorg.log.0 and xorg.conf. Please email me if you need more information about my system/setup.
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Created attachment 11507 [details] xorg.conf
> [jan:~]$ xrandr -q > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 2720 x 1700 > VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right) > 1360x768 59.8 60.0 > 1280x800 60.0 > 1152x864 60.0 > 1280x768 60.0 > 1280x720 60.0 > 1024x768 60.0 > 800x600 60.3 > 640x480 59.9 > LVDS connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 0mm x 0mm > 1280x800 60.0*+ 60.0 > 1280x768 60.0 > 1280x720 60.0 > 1024x768 60.0 > 800x600 60.3 > 640x480 59.9 > S-video connected 800x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 0mm x 0mm > 800x600 59.9*+ 60.3 > > (I don't know where that S-Video comes from, I don't have one) Well, my second monitor is just black, no picture at all. I forgot to mention that, sorry. It hits standby after some time. I even tried to play with DDCMode and IgnoreEDID but it didn't help. lspci -vvvxx is located here: http://pastebin.archlinux.org/14326
Sorry guys, this wasn't a complete xorg-7.3. My distro had a backward-compatible-abi release in testing. But now I have a shiny new xorg-server-1.4. First thing I can tell is, that my second monitor is listed as connected and I have a working extended screen! [jan:~]$ xrandr -q Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2560 x 800, maximum 2720 x 1700 VGA-0 connected 1280x800+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 1360x768 59.8 60.0 1280x800 60.0* 1152x864 60.0 1280x768 60.0 1280x720 60.0 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 640x480 59.9 LVDS connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 1280x800 60.0*+ 60.0 1280x768 60.0 1280x720 60.0 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 640x480 59.9 S-video connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 800x600 59.9 + 60.3 As you can see, the resolution of the second Monitor (VGA-0) isn't 1440x900 (which it should be). I have tested the following resolutions: [jan:~]$ xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1440x900 # becomes 1024x768 xrandr: cannot find mode 1440x900 [jan:~]$ xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1360x768 # becomes 1280x768 [jan:~]$ xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1280x800 # becomes 1024x768 [jan:~]$ xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1152x864 # becomes 1152x870 [jan:~]$ xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1280x768 # becomes 1280x768 [jan:~]$ xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1280x720 # becomes 1280x720 [...] These are the log-outputs when I call xrandr: (II) RADEON(0): DDC Type: 4, Detected Monitor Type: 0 (II) RADEON(0): Found color CRT connected to TV DAC in RADEONProbeOutputModes (II) RADEON(0): I2C device "CRT2_DDC:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0. (II) RADEON(0): I2C device "CRT2_DDC:ddc2" removed. (WW) RADEON(0): DDC2/I2C is not properly initialized (II) RADEON(0): DDC Type: 0, Detected Monitor Type: 0 (II) RADEON(0): Detected Monitor Type: 2 in RADEONProbeOutputModes (II) RADEON(0): No valid mode specified, force to native mode (II) RADEON(0): Total number of valid FP mode(s) found: 1 (II) RADEON(0): DDC Type: 4, Detected Monitor Type: 0 (II) RADEON(0): Found color CRT connected to TV DAC in RADEONProbeOutputModes (II) RADEON(0): I2C device "CRT2_DDC:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0. (II) RADEON(0): I2C device "CRT2_DDC:ddc2" removed. (WW) RADEON(0): DDC2/I2C is not properly initialized (II) RADEON(0): DDC Type: 0, Detected Monitor Type: 0 (II) RADEON(0): Detected Monitor Type: 2 in RADEONProbeOutputModes (II) RADEON(0): No valid mode specified, force to native mode (II) RADEON(0): Total number of valid FP mode(s) found: 1 (II) RADEON(0): S-Video TV connection detected in RADEONProbeOutputModes disable montype: 1 disable montype: 5 init memmap init common init crtc2 init pll2 restore memmap (II) RADEON(0): RADEONRestoreMemMapRegisters() : (II) RADEON(0): MC_FB_LOCATION : 0x3fff3c00 (II) RADEON(0): MC_AGP_LOCATION : 0xffffffc0 restore common restore crtc2 restore pll2 finished PLL2 restore dac enable montype: 1 disable montype: 5 When I set Option "PanelSize" "1440x900" for the second monitor, then X will hang during start. I can only reboot the machine via <ctrl-alt-del>. The same happens when I set Option "DDCMode" "on" in the Device section. I attached an updated Xorg.log.0 / xorg.conf If you need any additional information, I'm on irc.freenode.org #xorg or email me.
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Created attachment 11555 [details] Xorg.0.log UPDATED
The driver is not able to get an edid from your monitor for some reason (ddc on the xpress chips is pretty flakey ATM). you'll have to manually add the mode to either your config or at runtime using xrandr: xrandr --addmode VGA-0 1440x900 xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1440x900
thx for your answer. Since the 1440x900 mode wasn't available I created a Modeline with 'cvt 1440 900 60' and added it: xrandr --newmode "1440x900" 106.50 1440 1528 1672 1904 900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync [jan:~]$ xrandr -q Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2432 x 864, maximum 2720 x 1700 VGA-0 connected 1152x864+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 1360x768 59.8 60.0 1280x800 60.0 1152x864 60.0* 1280x768 60.0 1280x720 60.0 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 640x480 59.9 LVDS connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 1280x800 60.0*+ 60.0 1280x768 60.0 1280x720 60.0 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 640x480 59.9 S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1440x900 (0x62) 106.5MHz h: width 1440 start 1528 end 1672 total 1904 skew 0 clock 55.9KHz v: height 900 start 903 end 909 total 934 clock 59.9Hz WTF, it was added to S-Video? I can't switch to it now of course... (Sometimes I could, with "xrandr --addmode VGA-0 1440x900" but then "xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1440x900" gave me "xrandr: cannot find crtc for output VGA-0") So I wrote it into the Monitor Section: Section "Monitor" Identifier "FSC" Modeline "1440x900" 106.50 1440 1528 1672 1904 900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync EndSection And there it was! VGA-0 connected 1440x900+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 1440x900 59.9* 1360x768 59.8 60.0 [...] Yay! Now I could switch to it with a little helping script (sometimes): #!/bin/sh xrandr --auto xrandr --output LVDS --rotate normal xrandr --addmode VGA-0 1440x900 xrandr --output VGA-0 --auto xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1440x900 xrandr --output VGA-0 --right-of LVDS However, xrandr -q says VGA-0 disconnected after a fresh start of the system. Sometimes I can call the script 20 times and nothing happens. Sometimes the screen gets extended after the 3rd call. Never on the first though. Can you please show me a way to set this up statically in xorg.conf? I have tried every possible variation of Section "Monitor" Identifier "FSC" Modeline "1440x900" 106.50 1440 1528 1672 1904 900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync HorizSync 31.5-55.93 VertRefresh 50.0-60.0 UseModes "1440x900" Option "Enable" "on" Option "RightOf" "LVDS" Option "PreferredMode" "1440x900" EndSection but X always comes up with only the laptop screen enabled. This is in the logs: (II) RADEON(0): Output VGA-0 using monitor section FSC (**) RADEON(0): Option "PreferredMode" "1440x900" (**) RADEON(0): Option "RightOf" "LVDS" (**) RADEON(0): Option "Enable" "on" (II) RADEON(0): I2C bus "CRT2_DDC" initialized. [...] (II) RADEON(0): Output VGA-0 enabled by config file (II) RADEON(0): Output LVDS connected (II) RADEON(0): Output S-video connected (II) RADEON(0): Output VGA-0 using initial mode 1280x800 (<- ????) (II) RADEON(0): Output LVDS using initial mode 1280x800 (II) RADEON(0): Output S-video using initial mode 800x600 after xf86InitialConfiguration Thanks, - Jan
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oki, it was the S-Video. Disabling it solved the problem, now I can start my extended screen with this little script: #!/bin/sh 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 Still I wonder what the static way for it would be. Guess this "bug" can be closed now. (Well it's a new one, cause I have to disable my non-existing S-Video Port :P) Thanks!
(In reply to comment #10) > Still I wonder what the static way for it would be. > > Guess this "bug" can be closed now. (Well it's a new one, cause I have to > disable my non-existing S-Video Port :P) Thanks! > Well, your bios seems to think you have an S-video port. You can either upgrade to the latest version of the driver in git (which disables tv-oout load detection), or you can disable it thusly: add: Section "Monitor" Identifier "TV" Option "Enable" "FALSE" EndSection to your xorg.conf and add: Option "Monitor-S-video" "TV" to the device section of your config.
Yeah I tried that but it doesn't work for me. I've to wait for a new release with disabled S-Video. Section "Device" Identifier "Radeon XPRESS 200M" Driver "ati" BusID "PCI:1:5:0" Option "monitor-LVDS" "LVDS" Option "monitor-VGA-0" "FSC" Option "monitor-S-video" "TV" # Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" # Option "EnablePageFlip" "on" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "LVDS" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "FSC" HorizSync 31.5-55.93 VertRefresh 50.0-60.0 Modeline "1440x900" 106.50 1440 1528 1672 1904 900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync UseModes "1440x900" Option "Enable" "on" Option "PreferredMode" "1440x900" Option "RightOf" "LVDS" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "TV" Option "Enable" "FALSE" EndSection (II) RADEON(0): Output VGA-0 using monitor section FSC (II) RADEON(0): I2C bus "CRT2_DDC" initialized. (II) RADEON(0): Output LVDS using monitor section LVDS (II) RADEON(0): Panel ID string: AU B121EW01 1280x800WXGA (II) RADEON(0): Panel Size from BIOS: 1280x800 (II) RADEON(0): BIOS provided dividers will be used. (II) RADEON(0): Output S-video using monitor section TV (**) RADEON(0): Option "Enable" "FALSE" (II) RADEON(0): Default TV standard: NTSC (II) RADEON(0): TV standards supported by chip: NTSC (II) RADEON(0): Port0: Monitor -- AUTO Connector -- VGA DAC Type -- TVDAC/ExtDAC TMDS Type -- None DDC Type -- CRT2_DDC (II) RADEON(0): Port1: Monitor -- AUTO Connector -- Proprietary/LVDS DAC Type -- None TMDS Type -- None DDC Type -- None (II) RADEON(0): Port2: Monitor -- AUTO Connector -- STV DAC Type -- TVDAC/ExtDAC TMDS Type -- None DDC Type -- None (II) RADEON(0): DDC Type: 4, Detected Monitor Type: 0 (II) RADEON(0): Found color CRT connected to TV DAC finished output detect: 0 (WW) RADEON(0): DDC2/I2C is not properly initialized (II) RADEON(0): DDC Type: 0, Detected Monitor Type: 0 (II) RADEON(0): Detected Monitor Type: 2 finished output detect: 1 (II) RADEON(0): S-Video TV connection detected finished output detect: 2 finished all detect before xf86InitialConfiguration (II) RADEON(0): DDC Type: 4, Detected Monitor Type: 0 (II) RADEON(0): Found color CRT connected to TV DAC in RADEONProbeOutputModes (II) RADEON(0): I2C device "CRT2_DDC:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0. (II) RADEON(0): I2C device "CRT2_DDC:ddc2" removed. (WW) RADEON(0): DDC2/I2C is not properly initialized (II) RADEON(0): DDC Type: 0, Detected Monitor Type: 0 (II) RADEON(0): Detected Monitor Type: 2 in RADEONProbeOutputModes (II) RADEON(0): No valid mode specified, force to native mode (II) RADEON(0): Total number of valid FP mode(s) found: 1 (II) RADEON(0): S-Video TV connection detected in RADEONProbeOutputModes (II) RADEON(0): Output VGA-0 connected (II) RADEON(0): Output LVDS connected (II) RADEON(0): Output S-video connected (II) RADEON(0): Output VGA-0 using initial mode 1280x800 (II) RADEON(0): Output LVDS using initial mode 1280x800 (II) RADEON(0): Output S-video using initial mode 800x600
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