Hotplugging a VGA monitor to an alubook 5,8 with a fresh ati driver
works ... minor mouse isues, as of yet, but working :) ... details
below ..
On Fri, Nov 23 2007, at 09:55 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 03:04 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> >
> > What I know is, that with xrandr 1.2 hotplugging a 2nd monitor to a
> > 5.8 alubook doesn't do anything at all. Not out of the box, and not
> > here on unstable Debian with packages from a few days ago and kernel
> > 2.6.18 ...
>
> The kernel doesn't matter for this. With xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.7.19x
> (so far only available in experimental), external displays with a VGA
> connector should work with all Radeon {Power,i}Books. Displays with a
> DVI connector can be trickier; depending on the PowerBook model and
> driver version, Option "MacModel" "powerbook" or "powerbook-duallink"
> may help for those.
>
> Note that hotplugging a monitor per se isn't expected to have any direct
> effect; something like
>
> xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto
Thanks for the one-liner above: works like a charm here, and out of
the box, with an about 9 years old VGA monitor, connected to an
alubook 5,8, and with an ATI driver from experimental that you
mentioned.
This is what it obviously does:
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$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1440 x 1024, maximum 1440 x 1200
LVDS connected 1440x960+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 321mm x
214mm
1440x960 59.9*+
1280x800 60.0
1280x768 60.0
1024x768 60.0
800x600 60.3
640x480 59.9
DVI-0 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 300mm
x 225mm
1280x1024 60.0*
1280x960 59.9
1280x800 60.0
1280x768 60.0
1024x768 85.0 84.9 75.1 70.1 60.0
800x600 84.9 85.1 75.0 60.3
640x480 85.0 84.6 75.0 60.0 59.9
720x400 70.1
S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
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All I did - after installing xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.7.196-1 - was
adding a single extra line to the xorg.conf that I attached to a
message earlier in this thread:
diff -u xorg.conf xorg.conf.07.11.23
--- xorg.conf 2007-11-23 11:50:29.000000000 +0100
+++ xorg.conf.07.11.23 2007-11-23 11:48:08.000000000 +0100
@@ -96,7 +96,6 @@
Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000]"
Driver "ati"
BusID "PCI:0:16:0"
- Option "MacModel" "powerbook"
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
Option "AGPSize" "16"
Option "AGPMode" "4"
and restarting X.
As to 'xrandr -q' from above:
Ladies and Gentlemen, please note that the correct values of the
connected VGA (1280x1024, at 60 Hz, IINM) are correctly and automagically
detected, without xorg.conf knowing anything of them ...
It's a DDC 1/2B VGA, meaning, IINM, that this beast automatically
communicates its technical capabilities to its host system. And
outside it reads Compaq, but IIRC a Hyundai is actually inside ...
Oh yes: and
xrandr --output DVI-0 --off
switches the attached VGA off ... the alubook screen is shaking a bit
for ~ half a sec, but it works.
>
> is required explicitly in order to enable the external display.
I call it hotplugging anyway ... :)
Sidenotes:
Since installing the new driver some artifacts are visible around the
mouse-pointer in its default "arrow" image ... Please let me know if
a photo from that might help ...
And the mouse is completely gone on the console .. haven't had time,
yet, to google/explore that ...
Oh yes, and this: about 3 from 10 Xserver restarts from the KDE/KDM
login screen fail here, with e.g. the login desktop image melting into
some unformed psychedelic colors - I remember having had this previous
times when booting the machine .. like then it can be "fixed" now by
simply putting the machine to sleep, and waking it again, as it seems
...
Now let's see now how I can connect my telly via the S-composite
connector to this computer ... :)
No sidenote:
All that is real fine progress, Michel.
So last, but most certainly not least thanks to everyone who made all
this possible, among them
Rickard E. (Rik) Faith
Kevin E. Martin
Alan Hourihane
Marc Aurele La France
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Michel Dänzer
Alex Deucher
Bogdan D.
Eric Anholt
Please let me know if you need some testing for this driver, be it on
an older TiBook IV, or the alubook 5,8.
Now I need breakfast, at last ... :)
'later
Best Regards
Wolfgang
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