Fedora 12 on ati radeon laptop
Kevin Kempter
kevink at consistentstate.com
Wed Jan 20 23:35:18 UTC 2010
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 13:49:38 François Cami wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:05:59 -0700
>
> Kevin Kempter <kevink at consistentstate.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 January 2010 07:55:03 François Cami wrote:
> > > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:04:27 -0700 Kevin Kempter
<kevink at consistentstate.com> wrote:
> > > > how can I get dual monitors working on it? I dont care about 3D. I
> > > > enabled the rpmfusion repos. I tried to install the kmod-fglrx
> > > > package via yum but I get a message that no package kmod-fglrx is
> > > > available.
> > >
> > > You should not need fglrx to get your dual monitor setup working. If
> > > you _want_ to use fglrx, this is not the place to ask.
> > >
> > > With that behind us:
> > > What is the name of your video card (from lspci output)?
> > > What is the output of "xrandr" when the secondary monitor is plugged?
> > > If it doesn't work, you should file a bug at bugzilla.redhat.com with
> > > the following information, with both monitors plugged in:
> > > /var/log/dmesg after booting with drm.debug=15
> > > /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback. Here's where I'm at:
> >
> >
> > I installed system-config-display
> >
> > If I plug the second monitor into the laptop before I boot, then it
> > partially works as is, if I open say a Konsole then it opens on the
> > second screen. However I cannot move my mouse to the second screen which
> > makes it pretty difficult to use te newly started konsole window.
>
> Ok, we may still have monitor hotplug issues.
> What is the name of your card again?
>
ATI M92 LP [Mobility Radeon HD 4300 Series]
> > Here's my xrandr output:
> >
> > # xrandr
> > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1600 x 900, maximum 8192 x 8192
> > VGA-0 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> > 1440x900 59.9 + 75.0
> > 1280x1024 75.0 70.0 60.0
> > 1152x864 75.0
> > 1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0
> > 832x624 74.6
> > 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
> > 640x480 72.8 75.0 66.7 60.0
> > 720x400 70.1
> > LVDS connected 1600x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> > 382mm x 214mm
> > 1600x900 60.3*+
> > 1440x900 59.9
> > 1280x854 59.9
> > 1280x800 59.8
> > 1280x720 59.9
> > 1152x768 59.8
> > 1024x768 60.0 59.9
> > 800x600 60.3 59.9 56.2
> > 848x480 59.7
> > 720x480 59.7
> > 640x480 59.9 59.4
>
> As far as I can see, KMS is not detecting your secondary monitor
> correctly. Please (in this order):
> * file a bug with this xrandr output, and the requested logs, at
> bugzilla.redhat.com * try booting with the nomodeset boot parameter and
> see if it fixes your problem.
>
> François
>
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