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el muchacho
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 Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 11:38 pm Post subject: XFCE4.12: dualmonitor not working (at startup only) |
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Hi,
the new manager to setup the dual monitor in XFCE4.12 is quite nice and straight forward... I have two identical screens plugged in, one as VGA one as DVI.
However... when restarting, the panel never shows up after the logging. Seems XFCE is having headaches to display the desktop on both screen from the very startup, even thought it gets it right if i plug one screen with a delay.
ANyone having this ? |
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ct85711
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| Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 2:34 am Post subject: |
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just wondering, what login manager you using?
For me, I'm using slim-1.3.6-r4, and never did get it to display both monitors. Though once I get into XFCE, I haven't had much trouble with dual monitors. The biggest thing I had to do, is make sure my preferences are set properly (on which one is primary, and the screen resolutions for each monitor). |
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el muchacho
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| Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes i'm using Slim too. Ok i'll see to change. Though the splash screen in itself does appear correctly, it's only straight after the login that it goes nowhere. |
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el muchacho
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| Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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I've tried with LightDm, exactly the same problem, the desktop won't show up and remain stuck with the spinning wheel until it unplug one screen.  |
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el muchacho
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| Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:00 am Post subject: |
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Ok, turns out it actually works if I wait long enough (between one and two minutes, and eventually my desktop comes up correctly on both screen).
dmesg doesn't show anything related to graphics/xorg.
Xorg logs show the massive time gap occurring below:
| Code: | [ 95.290] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "KB USB Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD, id 9)
[ 95.290] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 95.290] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc104"
[ 95.290] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[ 153.096] (II) RADEON(0): EDID vendor "ACI", prod id 9363
[ 153.096] (II) RADEON(0): Using EDID range info for horizontal sync
[ 153.096] (II) RADEON(0): Using EDID range info for vertical refresh
[ 153.096] (II) RADEON(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
[ 153.096] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0 148.50 1920 2008 2052 2200 1080 1084 1089 1125 +hsync +vsync (67.5 kHz eP) |
Any suggestions on what's at stake ?
PS: to help pinpoint the issue i'm not using any login manager anymore, just logging in through console and doing "startx".
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lovelytux
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| Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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Hey,
do you use a xorg.conf ?
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el muchacho
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| Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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Hey,
nope, i don't have any. |
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lovelytux
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| Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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Hey,
and do you use one grafik (Radeon) or two cards? Or is your radeon a dual-head card?
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el muchacho
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| Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 1:11 pm Post subject: |
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It's AMD A10 processors with the GPU embedded.
Is there anyway to increase the amount of logs produces ? Whether it's kernel messages or X logs, I find it very poor. |
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el muchacho
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| Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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I found someone who has a very similar issue and was able to try different hardware config before concluding it's the very GPU we use...
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=722095
| Quote: | Given that dual head has worked with these two monitors with different motherboads with other Radeon chipsets, I conclude the issue is specific either to the chipset, motherboard, or firmware of either (or both, or some combination of all these).
I am leaning toward the theory of a firmware or hardware issue because as you can see from the Xorg.0.log below when the BenQ is plugged in it produces no output in the Xorg.0.log (I copied it to a USB stick typing blindly).
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So is my only solution migrating to Intel/nVidia ?  |
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lovelytux
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| Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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Hey,
you use a radeon card (chip), thats why you need radeon-driver. Look here at this fine wiki: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon
Try to use a xorg.conf in wich both monitors and the one GPU are discribed:
| Code: | Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" 1280 0 ???
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "1"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Your Monitor"
HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0 ???
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 ???
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Your Monitor"
HorizSync 26.0 - 81.0 ???
VertRefresh 24.0 - 75.0 ????
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "???"
BusID "????"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device1"
.....
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option ...
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Device1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "0 or 1" ???
EndSection |
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el muchacho
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| Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
thanks for your answer, i have the Radeon opensource drivers from the start, and i've also tried setting up the dual screen the old way (using xrandr and running xrandr at every startup to define manually the 2 screens --left-of and --right-of... none worked, as well a a few config using the Xorg.conf.
I'll try with the proprietary drivers and see, but that's quite a pain in the onion.  |
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