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So I'm trying to change over from the ATI proprietary driver over to the open source radeon driver (xf86-video-ati libgl, from catalyst and catalyst-utils) I wrote the xorg.conf file by myself for the first time, but X won't start. I'm getting an error saying that device is not found. aaaarrrrrgggghhh. here's my xorg.conf if anybody wouldn't mind taking a look at it. I'm not really sure what the problem is.
I've got 2 monitors on an ATI stealth x1550 card
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-DGA"
EndSubSection
Load "glx"
Load "freetype"
#Load "type1"
Load "dri"
Load "drm"
EndSection
Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Server Flags"
EndSection
Section "Input Device"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "Input Device"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor0"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor1"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "ati-card"
Driver "radeon"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "device0"
Driver "radeon"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
Driver "radeon"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "device0"
Monitor "monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "device1"
Monitor "monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0666
EndSection
thank you in advance for any help provided!
Cyrus
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I suggest using the radeonhd driver. It appears as if you have a X1xxx series card, and that is supported through the radeonhd driver. I have no problem setting up dual head with this driver. There's no 3d acceleration yet, and only 2d acceleration in GIT.
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Thanks for the advice on the driver. but now I'm getting the error
"No Matching BusID for Instance (BusID PCI:2:0:1) found
Fatal Error
Requested entity already in use!
giving up"
what's going on with this? are there errors in my xorg.conf? or what?
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Try to set up only one monitor in xorg.conf and activate the second with xrandr in a terminal after X startup.
See my post here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=44275
Bye, signor_rossi.
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alright, now I'm having issues with xrandr. of my two monitors, the smaller monitor attatched to port DVI-A_1, is working fine, but no matter what I do, the other port DVI-D_2 shows as disconnected. I tried:
xrandr --auto
xrandr --output DVI-D_2 --auto
here is the output of xrandr -q:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 2048 x 2048
DVI-A_1 connected 1280x1024+0+0 338mm x 270mm
1280x1024 60.0*+ 74.9 75.0
1280x960 59.9
1152x864 75.0 74.9
1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0
832x624 74.6
800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 60.0
720x400 70.1
TV_SVIDEO disconnected
VGA_1 disconnected
DVI-D_2 disconnected
If I can get the DVI port to connect, I should be good to go. this is the last peice of the puzzle!
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Are you using radeonhd now? If yes maybe you find this site useful then.
Bye, signor_rossi.
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the link never came through signor_rossi, and yes, I am using the radeonhd driver, I also edited my xorg.conf as per instructions to wrok with xrandr.
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-DGA"
EndSubSection
Load "glx"
Load "freetype"
#Load "type1"
Load "dri"
Load "drm"
EndSection
Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Server Flags"
#Option "Xinerama" "On"
EndSection
Section "Input Device"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "Input Device"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor0"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "device0"
Driver "radeonhd"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "device0"
Monitor "monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 2048 2048
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Multihead Layout"
Screen "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Hofstadter's Law:
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Oh, sorry. It is this one:
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhd
But I guess the problem is that the second monitor doesn't get detected in the first place.
Bye, signor_rossi.
Last edited by signor_rossi (2008-02-26 21:07:09)
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Signor_rossi, I am eternally in your debt! thank you! problem solved
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Please specify what the problems were so others can enjoy too.
I myself have a r300 card and wasn't that lucky with the radeon driver from testing with my dual head setup.
Bye, signor_rossi.
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So, initially I had a dual head set up with ATI X1550 radeon graphics card. I was using the proprietary drivers and everything was functional, albeit not perfect. I realized that OpenOffice would not run. did some research and found that OO has issues running with FGLRX. if anyone is running into this problem, switch to the open source driver (radeonhd in my case) and set up your dual monitors with xrandr. also, writing my own xorg.conf was quite the educational experience! hope this thread helps some people out
Cyrus
Hofstadter's Law:
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
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