Comments on: Updates on URandR

By: Thorns

Thorns — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:00:36 +0000

I’ve tried doing Xinerama for my dad’s laptop with the Intel driver with somewhat degree of success — some screen corruption here and there, now and then. Maybe I didn’t set it up correctly… I also tried Cloned output but I didn’t manage to get that. Might you happen to know how to set up Cloned output successfully on the Intel driver, Alberto?

By: pierluc

pierluc — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:51:32 +0000

Can you create a envy-beta, a software to installe beta driver. When a new driver go out and it is very better we can use envy-beta to install them. But, if we would not have problem we use envy and we install the last stable driver.

By: albertomilone

albertomilone — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:45:41 +0000

@pierluc
I think I will add the support for driver 8.42.x when it’s released. I would rather not add driver 8.41.7 since AMD itself clearly warned its users against the following problems:

Caution: AMD recommends that this release of the AMD Proprietary Linux software driver not be used for distribution packages. Distributors should continue to use the AMD Proprietary Linux driver version 8.40.4

Caution: The ATI Catalyst™ Linux software suite 8.41.7 does not support ATI Workstation products. AMD recommends using the AMD Proprietary Linux software driver version 8.40.4.

Caution: The AMD Proprietary Linux driver version 8.41.7 is not recommended for the ATI Mobility and Integrated Products. Using this driver on any of the following products may result in stability issues. AMD recommends using the AMD Proprietary Linux software driver version 8.40.4.

Caution: The AMD Proprietary Linux driver version 8.41.7 is not recommended for use on ATI Radeon X1900 series of products and lower. Using this driver on any of the following products may result in stability issues. AMD recommends using the AMD Proprietary Linux driver version 8.40.4

By: pierluc

pierluc — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:27:21 +0000

Will-you add the support of the ATI Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver 8.41.7?
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeonhd.html

It’s write that this driver ad the complete support of OpenGL Radeon HD 2000 series and they will add the support of all card who go out beteween Radeon 9500 and this serie on the next ATI Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver 8.42.X.

By: Alberto Milone

Alberto Milone — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:18:44 +0000

I have plugged in my Radeon 9200, installed the driver from GIT on Debian sid and had the same output.

Some devs in the mailing list explained me that the name schemes depend on the driver.

This means that I will have to do additional work to support ATI cards :-/

By: Manuel Stahl

Manuel Stahl — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:36:54 +0000

xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.7.192-1
xserver-xorg-core 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12ubuntu2

Ubuntu gutsy and the xserver-xorg-video-ati is from https://www.die-welt.net/index.php/blog/187/ATI_radeon_opensource_driver_with_XRandr_1.2_support_for_Debian_unstable

Currently there is no randr 1.2 support for radeon in ubuntu.

Its a Acer Aspire 2000 with Radeon 9200 and external connectors for vga and s-video/composite.

By: albertomilone

albertomilone — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:30:19 +0000

VGA-0 and S-video???

Is it an idiosyncrasy of the ATI driver? I will ask in the Xorg mailing list

I would like to know:

1) which version of Ubuntu/Debian you’re using
2) the output of this command:
sudo aptitude show xserver-xorg-video-ati

3) how did you install the ati driver?

By: Manuel Stahl

Manuel Stahl — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:14:13 +0000

xrandr -v
Server reports RandR version 1.2

xrandr

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 2048 x 2048
VGA-0 connected (normal left inverted right)
1280×1024 75.0 + 76.0 75.0 71.9 59.9
1280×960 59.9
1152×864 75.0 74.8
1024×768 75.1 70.1 60.0
832×624 74.6
800×600 72.2 75.0 60.3
640×480 75.0 72.8 66.7 60.0
720×400 70.1
LVDS connected 1280×800+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 0mm x 0mm
1280×800 59.9*+ 60.0
1280×768 60.0
1024×768 60.0
800×600 60.3
640×480 59.9
S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right)

so my external device is called VGA-0 but in your code the name is hardcoded to VGA.

By: albertomilone

albertomilone — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:44:41 +0000

@Manuel
1) the devices can be:
VGA, LVDS, TV, TMDS-1 (2,3, etc.)

2) can you post the output of this command, please?
xrandr -v

By: Manuel Stahl

Manuel Stahl — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:37:08 +0000

Thanks, that was fast. There are still two bugs I found:
Output devices can have a number appended like VGA-0 or similar. This should be reflected in the regular expression, because you have to place the correct name in the “xrandr –output” command.
Next is the detection of the refresh frequency. On my radeon 9200 is shows like “1280×1024 75.0 + 76.0 75.0 71.9 59.9*” that means a refresh rate of 59.9 is used.