On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:16:05AM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 10:49:04AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 10:45 +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > > > I would be glad if I'd get this far with my Powerbook5,6 15" > > > ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] > > > It works with X.org provided you use an analog (VGA) output. > > This morning I had a partial success! > The problem seems to have been a bad CVS build of xorg > (either I pulled the CVS at a bad time or my build had problems). > > With the new build from friday it actually worked almost directly, > I had to tune the timings and resolutions a bit. > Below the relevant lines from my xorg.conf.
# works on a PowerBook 5,6 (Post Feb 2005 15")
# with Iyama external flat panel monitor 1280x1024
# with xorg CVS HEAD build from 20050429
# there are rendering problems, though.
> My build still has rendering problems in the details (mostly fonts),
> but this might be another issue with the current CVS or
> some active acceleration.
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600
> M10]"
> # Driver "ati"
> Driver "radeon"
> BusID "PCI:0:16:0"
> # Option "UseFBDev" "true"
> #Option "MetaModes" "1280x854-1024x768"
> Option "MetaModes" "1280x854-1280x1024"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Standardbildschirm"
> #HorizSync 28-50
> #VertRefresh 43-75
> HorizSync 24-80
> VertRefresh 50-75
> Option "DPMS"
> EndSection
For the record: I picked those HSync and VRefresh
from the /var/log/Xorg.0.log output and the output for the CRT2.
This will be different for each monitor of course.
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Default Screen"
> Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600
> M10]"
> Monitor "Standardbildschirm"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1280x854" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
> Virtual 1280 1024
> #Virtual 1024 768
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
Note: This setup is not canonical in that I do not know which of the
settings is actually necessary to make it work and which could be left out.
This is just one I found that worked in getting me a good resolution
on the laptop and the external monitor.
(Now I have to tackle my rendering problems...)
Bernhard
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