Multi-Display ATI HD

[dimak]

I installed the drivers for my graphics card (Ati Mobility HD2400).

sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx

In "ATICCC - Display Manager - Multi-display" I can not change anything. He writes Uknown.
TVout is working in "clone" mode. How do I fix this??

[sithlord48]

Re: Multi-Display ATI HD

can you select your second monitor from the drop down list ?
that should allow you to enable it, and allow you to have a multi monitor set up.

[dimak]

Re: Multi-Display ATI HD

In drop list just goes "Uknown".

[dimak]

Re: Multi-Display ATI HD

What? No one knows how to do?

[sithlord48]

Re: Multi-Display ATI HD

you may want to look in system settings-> display i have turned on other monitors from there before, just not on my system (i only have 1 monitor) but my laptop vga can be activated/deactivated from there.
hopefully that will help you.
sith

[dimak]

Re: Multi-Display ATI HD

It did not help. Two of the display are in a "clone" mode.

[dimak]

Re: Multi-Display ATI HD

I made a small video of my problem. Video format *. swf.

Link: http://rapidshare.com/files/232218574/amdcccle.zip

TV does not want to work through the CCC.

[sithlord48]

Re: Multi-Display ATI HD

i have tried to set up w/ a monitor from another computer , and all that i can get is clone mode

i had much more success using the display options located in "System Settings" then with ati's ccc.

my issue seams to be that for some reason i can only display in clone mode my computer does detect the displays correctly.

i only have one dvi monitor and my card has two dvi outs, the second monitor is using a convertor to hook up to a vga monitor. my monitors show as dfp1 and crt1. in the same dialog greyed out, are dfp2 and crt2 both of them have a posission setting. so i think if i had two dvi monitors then i could change to a non clone mode...

you should try to manually set in ur xorg.conf file your dual monitor set up ..

[dimak]

Re: Multi-Display ATI HD

but I do not know how to set my xorg.conf

help my plz

[andybleaden]

Re: Multi-Display ATI HD

I cannot help you as I cannot even get the fglrx installed and running. My amdcccle would not work at all

[dimak]

Re: Multi-Display ATI HD

I installed several new operating systems. This was Ubuntu 9.04 and Mandriva 2009.1. All have the latest version of the kernel. It may be the reason?

[andybleaden]

Re: Multi-Display ATI HD

Well tried again and got it (fglrx) working although the splash screen is a little flickery

Not sure whether it has made any difference or not

[sithlord48]

Re: Multi-Display ATI HD

@ andybleaden
after i installed my fglrx driver i had to tweak my xorg a bit.. the info can be found here.

@dimak
you should be able to find info here on how to fix ur xorg.conf

[andybleaden]

Re: Multi-Display ATI HD

Hmm

Had a look at that when you first posted and thought it would help. Last night was the first night I have got fglrx working with a minimal flicker now at splash screen for k desktop

Here is my x.conf

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
DefaultDepth 24
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "False"
EndSection



My question to you is should I insert via kate the elements you have that differ such as
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true
Option "AIGLX" "True"
etc ?

BTW my x.org log is here if that is any help on paste bin
http://pastebin.com/m4695505d

I can edit and use (just) the amd catalyst centre....very flickery start up ...is this what you had sithlord?

[sithlord48]

Re: Multi-Display ATI HD

my main issue was that i was not getting any transparency on everything. i don't remember to much flicker. i would try them in your xorg it shouldn't break it,
and if it did well at least you know what items to remove .

if i an not mistaken the flickering went completely away when i added. (to my device section)

Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"