[ltp] ATI Radeon and external monitor troubles

[Marcel Merkel]

Hi Marius,

thank you for your reply. Unfortunately your xorg.conf does not help me.
I get the same result, beside if I unplug the vga cable from the laptop
and startx X it crashes:

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c8631]
1: [0xb7f0b420]
2: /usr/bin/X(AddScreen+0x1ee) [0x80764be]
3: /usr/bin/X(InitOutput+0x21e) [0x80a7c0e]
4: /usr/bin/X(main+0x27b) [0x8076c6b]
5: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0xb7d12030]
6: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x1ed) [0x80761c1]

Complete log is here  http://www.m-merkel.de/atiTroubles/Xorg.broken
I guess you did not have these issues, did you ? 

With plugged in vga cable no crash but the same results as before. Are
you using debian unstable as well ?
Btw I just found out I had not the lastest xserver-core deb package and
upgraded. Unfortunately the crash and results stay the same.

Cheers

Marcel






Am Samstag, den 18.08.2007, 19:57 +0300 schrieb Marius Gedminas:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 02:43:39PM +0200, Marcel Merkel wrote:
> > I'm struggling to get my external monitor on my t42 to work (laptop lcd
> > 1024x7168) . I'm using debian unstable with the open source radeon
> > driver.
> 
> I had that working perfectly (T42, Radeon 7500, 1024x768 laptop panel,
> 1280x1024 external LCD monitor), in several ways, with the pre-randr-1.2
> radeon driver.  You could take a look at my xorg.conf:
> <http://mg.pov.lt/xorg.conf>.  It has lots of comments (may outdated)
> and (too many) alternative configurations (expressed server layouts).
> 
> IIRC I had to boot (or maybe just restart X) once with the external
> monitor (1280x1024) plugged in.  After that I could
> suspend/resume/plug/unplug the external monitor at will, switching
> between dual-head and clone modes with xrandr.
> 
> Marius Gedminas