On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeuc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Ole Tange <o...@tange.dk> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Alex Deucher <alexdeuc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Ole Tange <o...@tange.dk> wrote: >>>> I am trying to get dual head on ATI FirePro M5800 working. LVDS works, >>>> but VGA-0 is in power save mode no matter what I do. >>>> >>>> My colleague got the non-free driver working, but I would prefer using >>>> the free driver. My research seems to indicate the chipset is called >>>> Redwood or r8xx or RV830 or r800 or Evergreen - but I could be wrong. >>>> >>>> I have been unable to find a guide for this card and the obvious >>>> (xrandr --output LVDS --output VGA-0 --left-of LVDS) does not work. >>>> Neither does KDE's gui config of display.
The problem was that /etc/modules did not contain 'radeon'. After adding that and rebooting everything worked. I also tried 'modprobe radeon' while running X. This is is not recommendable: Apparently that confused X so the display got screwed up but X kept running. I cannot tell if the kernel upgrade to 2.6.36 was necessary. /Ole _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
