On 5/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Hull-Richter</b> <<a href="mailto:mhullrich@gmail.com">mhullrich@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 5/3/07, Jeff Stacey <<a href="mailto:Jeff.Stacey@jri.ca">Jeff.Stacey@jri.ca</a>> wrote to me:<br>><br>> Grab the ATI Driver Installer it supports Xorg 7.1<br>><br>Okay, I did that. I have now been fighting with
xorg.conf and<br>system-config-display for about an hour and I still have mirror<br>screens and do not know what to do. Here is my xorg.conf (which isn't<br>even changed as I write this, it just doesn't work) and excerpts from
<br>the Xorg.0.log where there were errors (EE) or warnings (WW) and I<br>don't understand some of these. Hopefully someone out there will?<br><br>xorg.conf:<br><br># Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
<br><br>Section "ServerLayout"<br> Identifier "Multihead layout"<br> Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" LeftOf "aticonfig-Screen[1]"<br> Screen 1 "aticonfig-Screen[1]"
<br> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"<br> Option "Xinerama" "on"<br> Option "Clone" "off"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Files"
<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "InputDevice"<br> Identifier "Keyboard0"<br> Driver "kbd"<br> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"<br> Option "XkbLayout" "us"
<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Monitor"<br> Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"<br> VendorName "ATI Proprietary Driver"<br> ModelName "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
<br> Option "DPMS" "true"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Monitor"<br> Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[1]"<br> VendorName "ATI Proprietary Driver"<br>
ModelName "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"<br> Option "DPMS" "true"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Device"<br> Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"<br>
Driver "fglrx"<br> BusID "PCI:1:0:0"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Device"<br> Identifier "aticonfig-Device[1]"<br> Driver "fglrx"
<br> BusID "PCI:1:0:1"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Screen"<br> Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"<br> Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"<br> Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
<br> DefaultDepth 24<br> SubSection "Display"<br> Viewport 0 0<br> Depth 24<br> Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864"
<br>"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"<br> EndSubSection<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Screen"<br> Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[1]"<br> Device "aticonfig-Device[1]"
<br> Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[1]"<br> DefaultDepth 24<br> SubSection "Display"<br> Viewport 0 0<br> Depth 24<br> Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864"
<br>"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"<br> EndSubSection<br>EndSection<br><br>Don't I need something that has a Screen section with two Display<br>subsections? I can't remember what that was....
<br><br>Anyway, here are the errors and warnings from my Xorg.0.log (there<br>were no notices or unknowns):<br><br>(==) |-->Input Device "<default pointer>"<br>(WW) The core pointer device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout.
<br> Using the default mouse configuration.<br>:<br>(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************<br>(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization disabled! *<br>(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *<br>(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
<br>(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************<br>:<br>(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xd7fc0000,0x20000)<br>(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xd7f80000,0x60000)<br>(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xd7f00000,0xe0000)
<br>(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xd7e00000,0x1e0000)<br>(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xd7c00000,0x3e0000)<br>(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xd7800000,0x7e0000)
<br>(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xd7000000,0xfe0000)<br>(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xd6000000,0x1fe0000)<br>(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xd4000000,0x3fe0000)
<br>(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xd0000000,0x7fe0000)<br>:<br>(WW) fglrx(0): Textured Video not supported without DRI enabled.<br>(==) RandR enabled<br>(WW) Not including screen "aticonfig-Screen[0]" in origins calculation.
<br>:<br>(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable [882]<br>:<br>(WW) Disabling Composite since Xinerama is enabled<br>:<br>(WW) <default pointer>: No Device specified, looking for one...<br><br>None of these look to me like they are related to the problem - no
<br>dual head. What's worse is that s-c-d doesn't seem to understand this<br>either. It shows:<br><br>Settings: 800x600, Millions of colors (with only 640x480 as the other<br>res option)<br><br>Hardware: Generic Autodetecting Monitor (should be Dell 1707FP) and
<br>Unkown Video Card (which is actually correct - this is the fglrx<br>driver).<br><br>Dual Head: Use Dual Head, Generic Autodetecting Monitor (see above),<br>Second video card is "ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 71d2" (which
<br>is technically correct but useless), 800x600 (no options), Millions of<br>colors and "Spanning Desktops" which do not appear.<br><br>Anyone know what this is/might be and, hopefully, how to fix it?<br><br></blockquote>
</div><br>On top of all that, now only the floating feet and pattern screen savers work. Wonderful.<br><br>Please note that these are probably NOT CentOS bugs/problems, I'm just grasping at straws in hopes of finding something here that will fix this.
<br><br>Thanks.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Mark Hull-Richter<br>DATAllegro (<a href="http://www.datallegro.com">www.datallegro.com</a>)<br>85 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656<br>949-680-3082 - Office 949-330-7691 - fax
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