[ltp] T42p and ATI - a never ending story

[Andreas Siegert]

Hi,

> Someone out there with a t42p (or similar) with a working ATI setup? I
> hope there is someone ;)
Depends on what you call working.
mergdFB, Dulascreen and suspend all work.
I don't care much about 3D...
Did not test video out yet.

> It would be nice if this one can give some informations about it, what
> kernel, the ati-driver version and so on. Im really angry about this
> situation with ati - hopefully someone out there got a solution. 

I use SUSE 9.3 with Xorg 6.8.2 (There is an unsupported version of Xorg
6.8.2 for SUSE 9.2 on the FTP servers that works as well).

The setup produced by sax is useless.
I stopped using dualscreen when I noticed major problems with windowmaker,
now I am using mergedFB.
Unfortuantely auto detection of the second montor does not work, so I am
swapping config files depending n location.

Here are the relevant parts of my xorg.conf for mergedFB. If you run
single screen, just remove the monitorlayout / mergedfb stuff.

Section "Monitor"
  DisplaySize  304 227
  HorizSync    30-95
  Identifier   "LCD"
  ModelName    "1600X1200@75HZ"
  Option       "dpms"
  VendorName   "--> LCD"
  VertRefresh  58-78
  UseModes     "Modes[0]"
EndSection

Section "Modes"
  Identifier   "Modes[0]"
  Modeline      "800x600" 42.83 800 840 920 1040 600 601 604 624
  Modeline      "800x600" 50.32 800 840 928 1056 600 601 604 627
  Modeline      "1600x1200" 178.95 1600 1712 1888 2176 1200 1201 1204 1246
  Modeline      "1600x1200" 205.99 1600 1720 1896 2192 1200 1201 1204 1253
  Modeline      "800x600" 40.00 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +HSync +VSync
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  DefaultDepth 24
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      24
    Modes      "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      16
    Modes      "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
  EndSubSection
  Device       "radeon"
  Identifier   "Screen[0]"
  Monitor      "LCD"
EndSection

Section "Device"
  BoardName    "RV350 NT"
  BusID        "1:0:0"
  Driver       "radeon"
  Identifier   "radeon"
  VendorName   "ATI"
  Option        "DDCMode"              "on"
  Option       "DynamicClocks" "true" 
  Option       "MonitorLayout" "LVDS, CRT"
  Option       "AGPMode" "4"
  Option       "AGPFastWrite" "yes"
#  Option       "ForceCRT2Type" "CRT"
  Option       "MergedFB" "true"
  Option       "SubPixelOrder" "RGB"
  # Option       "NoMergedXinerama" "true"
  Option       "MergedXineramaCRT2IsScreen0" "false"
  Option       "CRT2Position" "LeftOf"
  Option       "MetaModes" "1600x1200-1280x1024 1280x1024-1280x1024 1024x768-1024x768 800x600-800x600"
  Option       "CRT2HSync" "24-80"
  Option       "CRT2VRefresh" "50-75"
  Option       "MergedDPI" "110 110"
  Option       "RenderAccel" "true"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier   "Layout[all]" 
  InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[2]" "SendCoreEvents"
  # Option       "Clone" "off"
  Option       "Xinerama" "off"
  Screen       "Screen[0]"
EndSection


cheers
afx

PS: anyone with a reliable irda setup for the box? Mine only works
occasoally after boot
PPS: Anyone with a working tpctl for the 2373-F4G?

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