On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 04:03, Josh Metzler wrote: > > I have a Radeon VE/7000 QY card with both DVI and VGA ports. I have a single > 19 inch monitor, and it is connected to the VGA port. When I upgraded to > XFree86 4.3.0-pre1v4 from 4.2.1-13, the X server would only start up in > 640x480 rather than 1600x1200. > > Looking through the log, I found that the driver was detecting two monitors. > Since I hadn't specified any information about a second monitor, it was using > the default hsync and vrefresh, which disallowed all modes higher than > 640x480. > > I solved the problem by specifying the Options "CloneHSync" and > "CloneVRefresh" in the Device section to be the same as the hsync and > vrefresh of the monitor. Now I get X at 1600x1200 again. However, the > radeon driver should be able to detect that I only have one monitor.
The radeon driver used to rely on the BIOS for monitor detection, this has been improved in CVS. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
