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fmma

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From: London

Registered: 2008-07-25

Posts: 25

ATI flgrx dual head mode: works only with fluxbox and balck screen on

Dear archusers and experst. I know this topic has here discussed already, but it seems everyone has slightly different problem.

Here my setting:
1 19' LCD 1440x900 and one 15' LCD 1024x768 resulution. HIS ATI 4650 graphic cad, standart kernel. ATI driver.

And here the problem
Basicly, dual head works only with fluxbox (with xnerama true X doesn't start). However, after exit fluxbox the server will not come up again and I have a black screen on both monitors.  I can't exit X, and I have to restart the system via ssh from another computer. It seems that deleting .Xauthority file solves the problem (however, kde4 still doesn't work). I looked through ny X.0.log file and I do not have any erors there (no EE), so I have only included the warnings as well the my xorg.conf.

I hope anyone can see an error or has a solution for me.

Thanks
Here xorg.0.log (no EE, only WW)

       

 (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/PEX" does not exist.
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic".
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/CID" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/TrueType" does not exist.
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(WW) fglrx: Force AIGLX enabled
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for fglrx
(WW) This ATI Proprietary Linux Driver does not guarantee support of video driver ABI higher than 2.0
(WW) Video driver ABI version of the X server is 4.1
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@1:0:1) found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@1:0:1) found

Of note lspci says my card has the address

lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV730 PRO [Radeon HD 4650]

so I do not understand the warning in the last two rows of X.0.log

Here now my xorg.conf

# Auto-generated by Archie mkxcfg
# Auto-generated by Archie mkxcfg

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Xorg Configured"
    Screen   0      "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
    Screen         "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1" RightOf "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
    Option        "AIGLX" "true"
    Option        "xinerama" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
#    FontPath     "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
#    FontPath     "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
# True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/CID"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
#    Load  "type1"
#    Load  "ddc"  # ddc probing of monitor
#    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
    Load  "freetype"
#    Load  "record"
    Load  "GLcore"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "extmod"
    #   Load  "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option        "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
    Option        "AutoAddDevices" "False"
    Option        "AIGLX" "True"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "keyboard"
    Option        "CoreKeyboard"
    Option        "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option        "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option        "XkbVariant" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option        "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option        "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "USB Mouse"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents" "true"
    Option        "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option        "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-1"
    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    Option        "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
    Option        "DRI" "true"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-1"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    Option        "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
    Option        "DRI" "true"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
    Screen      1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-1"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-1"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Group        0
    Mode         0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option        "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

signor_rossi

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Registered: 2007-08-24

Posts: 257

Re: ATI flgrx dual head mode: works only with fluxbox and balck screen on

As for KDE4, it does not support two independent screens yet (even 4.2 doesn't!). And until the current catalyst version dual screens even didn't work in Xfce for me, I also had freezes.
You could try using ATI big desktop instead, as I do atm with KDE4. Just folllow the steps I describe in this thread, # 9 (minus 'install catalyst') to set it up.
And please don't write standard with t, mein Strumpfbandfuehrer. (just an insider joke)

SignorRossi.