VinzC
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 Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:27 pm Post subject: Monitors black when X starts with xf86-video-ati [SOLVED] |
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Hi all.
I've got a weird issue with Xorg radeon driver (aka xf86-video-ati-6.9.0). - When I start Xorg with an external monitor, both my laptop panel and the external monitor are black, i.e. there's no image displayed. Both monitors remain black even if I switch to a TTY console. All I can do is reboot my laptop -- the PC is not locked, just that the screens don't output anything.
EDIT: While logged in with a remote shell I noticed X eats 100% CPU. Killing X requires killall -9 X otherwise it doesn't exit. But even then, both screens remain all black. Can't do anything but poweroff using ACPI button.
- If I startx with the external monitor unplugged then plug it and configure for dual head manually with xrandr that works.
Here's my xorg.conf. I've written a common setup for both radeonhd and radeon drivers. I just need to change one line in the ServerLayout section to switch between both.
| /etc/X11/xorg.conf: | Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen[ati]"
#Screen "Screen[radeonhd]"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
Option "SuspendTime" "10"
Option "OffTime" "15"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/freefonts"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/terminus"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/unifont"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "LVDS"
Option "DPMS" "On"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DVI-0" # Or VGA, SVID,... whatever!
Option "RightOf" "LVDS"
Option "DPMS" "On"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "VGA" # Or VGA, SVID,... whatever!
Option "RightOf" "LVDS"
Option "DPMS" "On"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "ati-RX1400"
Driver "ati"
BoardName "Radeon Mobility X1400"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen[ati]"
Device "ati-RX1400"
Monitor "LVDS"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Virtual 3600 1200
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "radeonhd-RX1400"
Driver "radeonhd"
BoardName "Radeon Mobility X1400"
Option "monitor-DVI-I_1/digital" "DVI-0"
Option "monitor-VGA" "VGA"
Option "monitor-PANEL" "LVDS"
Option "RROutputOrder" "LVDS,DVI-0,VGA"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen[radeonhd]"
Device "radeonhd-RX1400"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Virtual 3600 1200
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection |
I don't have that issue with radeonhd driver. I've installed x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.9.0, x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd-1.2.3, x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4 and x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2.
Any idea what's wrong?
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Last edited by VinzC on Wed Feb 25, 2009 8:05 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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