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Alright, I am installing Arch for the first time. I am a convert from Ubuntu.
I currently have some problems that I have no idea how to fix.
First off, when I installed Arch I started off with the catalyst driver. I then tried to configure the system with amdcccle , this in turn broke X. I booted with a black screen, nothing else.
I then fixed the broken config by removing xorg.conf, and deleting the config in /etc/amd/...
I tried to get something working with xorg conf and I couldn't figure out how to do it and the dpi or font seemed to be kinda funny so I decided to try the free drivers.
I removed catalyst and catalyst-utils and installed the free radeon driver. Took out catalyst from rc.conf modules and added in radeon. I also removed vga=nomodeset from my menu.list in grub. I then rebooted. Which leads me to my questions.
1)Right now I have the main display connected with HDMI, its getting 1280x720 (the right resolution) but it is overscaling ( the border of the display is cutting off some of the image). The catalyst drivers with the default config did not do this. I think this could be a KMS problem, because it does it when i boot to runtime level 3 (terminal only).
2)The second monitor works fine, connected with DVI, getting 1440x900, but the monitor is physically rotated and when i try to run
xrandr --output DVI-1 --rotate right
it does not rotate it the monitor and X crashes, resulting in an unrotated monitor and GDM restarting
(if you cannot tell I am trying to go for dual monitor (not cloned))
3)and for a completely unrelated problem. cpufreq conservative does not seem to do much. When looking at scaling percentages in powertop my i5 is running in turbo mode 75% of the time and the lowest freq 25% of the time. Also it is not starting at boot, even though I have come daemons in the rc.conf to do this. Any ideas?
so those are my three problems
I have been researching and cant figure out the display issue. I am thinking about just going back to ubuntu because it just worked, but I want to get Arch Working and I don't want to give up. I like "The Arch Way" even though I don't know everything there is to know about linux.
Anyways. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks guys!
Last edited by quaa (2010-11-15 18:37:13)
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Ok, well I got number 3 fixed. Wasn't starting the cpufreq daemon.
But I still cannot figure out any of the xorg stuff.
Heres my settings so far. All this gives me when i restart gdm is my login background on both screens with no login box.
[quaa@comp ~]$ sudo cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "drm"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0" # your alias
Driver "radeon"
Screen 0
# Options "output" "HDMI-0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device1"
Driver "radeon"
Screen 1
# Options "output" "DVI-1"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
Option "Enable" "true"
Option "DPMS"
# ModeLine "1280x720" 74.250 1280 1390 1430 1650 720 725 730 750 +hsync +vsync
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
Option "Enable" "true"
Option "DPMS"
# ModeLine "1440x900" 109.473 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x720"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Device1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1440x900"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
Screen 1 "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0"
Option "Xinerama" "true"
EndSection
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figured out that there is a bug with rotating a monitor using the free drivers. reverted to catalyst and it just worked....
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