On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > Environment: Matrox G550 on xorg from unstable on a (mostly) sarge > installation. 2 analog screens. Xinerama is used, bare xorg - no mga_hal > etc.; kernel linux-image-2.6.12 or kernel-image-2.6.8 doesn't matter; > 686-smp in both cases. DRM loads fine. > > Symptom: booting, one display is text console. When X is started, it > starts fine on that display, but there's no signal on the other display - > thus it won't even come out of power save mode. > > Starting X once with a single head xorg.conf solves the problem: The 'single > head' X delivers identical signal to both outputs of the graphics card > (even to the point where killing X or switcing back to text mode shows the > text mode on both screens). Changing xorg.conf back to the > dualhead/xinerama one, it starts fine on both displays.
I have a dual monitor G550 set-up and experienced the same problem. A simple workaround for me was to switch to a virtual console (ie. Ctrl-Alt-F1) and then back to X (Ctrl-Alt-F7) -- the second head 'turned on' and everything worked as usual until the next reboot. -- Brad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
