DUAL DISPLAY ATI MANDRAKE

[UgoDeschamps]

did this...
it pretty much messed the hole thing
good thing I had a backup file (im use to file corruption under MS)

looked into the file, and... holy god theres LOTS of param...

I then tryed to play with the XORG driver, tryed it instead of the RADEON one.. same thing..

tryed to play with MONITOR, RESOLUTION and HARDWARE in the "control panel" the screen got mixed..
now Screen1 became Screen2...
so my main monitor is now my KDS 15" BUT the second monitor SAMSUNG 17" doesnt show anything...

now im about to call ATI
but mabye one of you know what could be wrong...

[sarumont]

Can you post your whole xorg.conf (minus the comments)? You have to have two screens and devices specified to use ATI cards in a dual-head setup. I've not yet gotten it to work as a big desktop, but I do have dual-head working (just can't drag windows between the two).

[UgoDeschamps]

ok sarumont Ill post it
tonight... (well tonight for my time :P Canada/Quebec) since I dont know whats the time diff between me and /dev/urandom ??

I'm also interested in knowing how you got your desktop to work (config wise)

even if I get to diferent monitor working independantly i'll be able to find a way to make thing work I have no dougt about it... its only that at the moment, I cant point the exact thing im missing...
I reed in a post on linuxquestions.org, that I could comment the BUS "PCI:1:0:0" line and that it will get the device by itself... since the error Im getting is something like "no card at PCI ..." I'll give it a try too.

I'll get back to you asap with the config file.
Thanks again for you time

[UgoDeschamps]

ok

here's after all thge manipulation of my config file

Section "Files"
    FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
    Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
    Load "extmod"
    Load "type1"
    Load "freetype"
    Load "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a"
    Load "glx" # 3D layer
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "monitor1"
    VendorName "Samsung"
    ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster 710(M)s (CHB7707*)"
    HorizSync 30-70
    VertRefresh 50-160
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "monitor2"
    VendorName "Korea Data Systems"
    ModelName "KDS Visual Sensations VS-5"
    HorizSync 31.5-48.5
    VertRefresh 40.0-70.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "device1"
    Driver "ati"
    Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "device2"
    Driver "ati"
    Option "DPMS"	
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "screen1"
    Device "device1"
    Monitor "monitor1"
    DefaultColorDepth 16

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 16
        Virtual 1280 1024
    EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "screen2"
    Device "device1"
    Monitor "monitor1"
    DefaultColorDepth 16

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 16
        Virtual 1024 768
    EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "layout1"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    Screen "screen1"
    Screen "screen2" Rightof "screen1"
EndSection

the second monitor displays
OUT OF RANGE
Hf: 30KHz - 60KHz
Vf: 55Hz - 75Hz

CURRENT FREQUENCY
Hf : 64.0KHz Vf: 60Hz


thanks in advance for the help

[sarumont]

Well...first off...are you sure that you are IDing the monitors correctly? You may be thinking one is the other (and vice versa).

Why are you using 'ati' is the driver? Are you not using ATI's driver binary? If so, you should have fglrx as your driver (modprobe it).

Here's one of my screen sections:

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen0"
    Device      "ATI Graphics Adapter connector 0"
    Monitor     "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1024x768"
        ViewPort    0 0  # initial origin if mode is smaller than desktop
    EndSubsection
EndSection

Try to emulate that 2x and not use the "Virtual".

[UgoDeschamps]

ok...
here the error messsage I get when changing to flxgr driver

EE Failed to load module glx
WW fglrx No matching device section for instance (BusID PCI:2:0:1) found
WW RADEON No matching device section for instance (BusID PCI:2:0:1) found
EE fglrx(0) Given depth (16) is not supported by fglrx driver
EE fglrx(0) R200PreInit failed
EE Screen(s) found, but none have a usable config

Fatal server error
no screens found