On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Ole Tange <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Alex Deucher <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Ole Tange <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I am trying to get dual head on ATI FirePro M5800 working. LVDS works, >>> but VGA-0 is in power save mode no matter what I do. >>> >>> My colleague got the non-free driver working, but I would prefer using >>> the free driver. My research seems to indicate the chipset is called >>> Redwood or r8xx or RV830 or r800 or Evergreen - but I could be wrong. >>> >>> I have been unable to find a guide for this card and the obvious >>> (xrandr --output LVDS --output VGA-0 --left-of LVDS) does not work. >>> Neither does KDE's gui config of display. >>> >>> Below is some output that may help. >> >> If you are not already, your best bet is to use KMS. Some evergreen >> vbioses had a bug in the i2c table for the VGA port. Make sure your >> kernel has this patch: >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=ea39302b87b8d944d567ef29c0647c09da5743fa >> or better yet, try 2.6.36. > > Now I have upgraded the Linux kernel to 2.6.36. I can now make the > VGA-0 go from powersave to an odd shade of greenish gray if I use > KDE's systemsettings to change the screen. I could not replicate that > using xrandr, though. > > So it seems I am still stuck with one screen if I want to use the free driver. > > Ideas?
File a bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org VGA works ok on the evergreen cards I have here. Alex > > > /Ole > _______________________________________________ > [email protected]: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
