Hello,
I am an -unhappy- ati/fglrx user, this is my video chip:
Code:
# lspci|grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV630 PRO AGP [Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP]
I was using dual head with fglrx 9.6 in Gentoo, and my kernel was starting to age more than I'd like, because fglrx 9.6 doesn't support linux >= 2.6.29. So didn't 9.7 either.
Recently 9.8 has come out, and it is updated for kernels up to 2.6.30.x, however, the new fglrx version seems not to like my dual head setup, and I can't really figure what the problem is. I wonder if I will ever be able to use fglrx without problems, the ati driver really sucks.
When I fire up X, my second monitor goes into standby mode, and remains so until I shut down X again. In console mode, both works ok. The main monitor works perfectly, however I need both of them to work.
This is the log:
http://pastebin.ca/1537742
There are some really weird things, though the logs for fglrx always seemed weird to me, however it worked with 9.6. For example, in the log you can read this:
Code:
(II) fglrx(0): End of Display1 EDID data --------------------
(II) fglrx(0): Connected Display2: CRT on secondary DAC [crt2]
(II) fglrx(0): Display2: is disabled by configuration
(II) fglrx(0): Display2: No EDID information from DDC.
(EE) fglrx(0): Unknown EDID version 0
(II) fglrx(0): Display2: Failed to get EDID information.
(II) fglrx(0): Output DFP1 using monitor section aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0
(II) fglrx(0): Output DFP2 has no monitor section
(II) fglrx(0): Output CRT1 has no monitor section
(II) fglrx(0): Output CRT2 has no monitor section
(II) fglrx(0): Output COMPONENT_VIDEO has no monitor section
(II) fglrx(0): Output DFP1 disconnected
(II) fglrx(0): Output DFP2 disconnected
(II) fglrx(0): Output CRT1 connected
(II) fglrx(0): Output CRT2 disconnected
(II) fglrx(0): Output COMPONENT_VIDEO disconnected
This stupid driver is telling me that it can't get the EDID from my second monitor. I have two monitor section but for some reason it can't use the second one (why? no idea), then it tells me that my second monitor is not connected. My card has an vga and a digital connector, each monitor is attached to one of them. My main monitor is a philips 109E5, and the other one is an acer x203w, which is attached to the dfp connector but using an adapter (the monitor only includes an vga cable). I wonder if that's a problem (though as I previously said, it worked perfect with catalyst 9.6.
This is my xorg.conf:
http://pastebin.ca/1537752
If you need anything else, just let me know. Please, don't suggest to use radeon of radeonhd instead. I need 3d for many things, and I have some other problems with the free drivers which makes them even worse than this (not even 2d acceleration and no xv either, which in turn makes them unusable, and some other things).
Thank you in advance for any pointers. I'll continue trying nonetheless.
