>That reminds me of another difference, though: the indicator that I was >using the correct xorg.conf used to be that the resolution tool would >display 0MHz or some enormous number instead of 62MHz. Yesterday it was >displaying 62.
The radeon driver was changed to do more auto detecting. But that means that the standard config with fixed external parameters no longer works. Have you tried removing the fixed frequency for the external monitor from your xorg.conf? >> Try the frkit radeon driver, it certainly allows you to connet >> a external monitor and then select the resolution tool at which >> point the external monitor will switch on. > >I am. I updated it yesterday. Ah, so I don't know which bits were putback and which were not. The radeon driver in frkit works quite a bit differently. Casper