On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 19:14 +0200, Eric Lavarde - Debian Bugs wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 10:06 +0200, Eric Lavarde - Debian Bugs wrote: > >> > >> > Please attach log files obtained when starting with > >> > xorg.conf.200602171936, both when docked and not. > >> Here it is! File names should be obvious. > > > > Thanks. Apparently, the driver only detects the internal display in both > > cases. You're saying neither case works with this config file? Does it > > make a difference if it's already docked on bootup? Or if you use Option > > "MonitorLayout" "TMDS" when docked? > No, it works undocked. When docked, the external screen doesn't show any > picture, but X seems happy with it (not me!), so that I assume it shows > something on the internal (closed) LCD. > But I can try the option.
Please do, and/or boot the machine docked. > >> >> Option "MonitorLayout" "TMDS,LVDS" > >> > > >> > This combination can't work currently because the driver doesn't > >> support > >> > external TMDS chips yet (the Radeon chip only has one TMDS unit > >> > integrated, which is used for the internal display). > >> Well, it's not explained in radeon(1). > > > > You may want to look at > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3621 . Unfortunately, it > > looks like LVDS+TMDS is still not working with the superpatch referenced > > there. > Eerg, you mean patching, recompiling, etc... ? Hmpf, need to think about > it, especially where you complain in there about regression issues :-> > (it's my work laptop, so I'm not too keen to test too much on it) Shouldn't be too bad with xserver-xorg-video-ati now in sid, but suit yourself. :) > > Speaking of upstream bugzilla, you may want to report this problem there > > as well, assuming it hasn't yet. > Sounds like the bug you pointed me to is the potential solution to the > issue, no? (I'm referring to: "- LVDS + internal TMDS. if you have a > laptop or docking station with LVDS and a DVI port, ...") Yes, once that works, at least Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,TMDS" should work. Autodetection of the docking station may be a different story though. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
