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mrinaldotnet
12-03-2006, 11:56 PM
Hi,

I'm using the 8.30.3 fglrx drivers on a ThinkPad T60 with a Mobility Radeon X1400 (using Ubuntu/Edgy). None of the dynamic display options seem to work.. if I run aticonfig --query-monitor, I get this:

$ aticonfig --query-monitor
Connected monitors: none
Enabled monitors: none
$

Similarly even --enable-monitor doesn't work (because it doesn't even see the monitors). I can, however, configure DesktopSetup, etc in my xorg.conf and use BigDesktop in whatever configuration I want (if I start X with all monitors connected). I'm just not able to do this dynamically, which would be nice.

Has anyone seen this problem or resolved it?

My X startup log is here (http://mrinal.net/Xorg.0.log).
Michael
12-04-2006, 06:50 AM
Using an Lenovo T60 with X1400 Mobility here and dynamic options without problems.

$ aticonfig --query-monitor
Connected monitors: lvds
Enabled monitors: lvds


Did you try using the 8.31 drivers?
mrinaldotnet
12-04-2006, 11:07 AM
Using an Lenovo T60 with X1400 Mobility here and dynamic options without problems.



Did you try using the 8.31 drivers?

Haven't yet... I thought there weren't too many changes, so I haven't upgraded yet. Will try it and see what happens. But this problem has been there for the last three or four driver versions (ever since I got the laptop).
Michael
12-04-2006, 11:14 AM
Haven't yet... I thought there weren't too many changes, so I haven't upgraded yet. Will try it and see what happens. But this problem has been there for the last three or four driver versions (ever since I got the laptop).

Hmm interesting. I have never run into this problem. Are you using a docking station? Or by chance have you tried doing anything with the BIOS (or upgrading to a newer BIOS) to see if the problem goes away?
mrinaldotnet
12-04-2006, 03:59 PM
Hmm interesting. I have never run into this problem. Are you using a docking station? Or by chance have you tried doing anything with the BIOS (or upgrading to a newer BIOS) to see if the problem goes away?

Hmm.. that was a good idea I never thought of. I just checked the BIOS and the only options related to display are regarding which display to use as primary. Fooled around with those, but it doesn't solve this problem.

I haven't upgraded my BIOS since I bought this machine, maybe I'll try that. Will also try the latest ATI drivers and see what happens.

Thanks!
Michael
12-04-2006, 04:32 PM
I haven't upgraded my BIOS since I bought this machine, maybe I'll try that.

Updating the BIOS on Lenovo/IBM laptops are easy; since they offer the BIOS on a bootable CD so it's operating system independent.
mrinaldotnet
12-05-2006, 01:29 AM
Updating the BIOS on Lenovo/IBM laptops are easy; since they offer the BIOS on a bootable CD so it's operating system independent.

Neat. Updated the BIOS to the latest, no luck with my problem though. It's pretty strange. Another T42 I configured (which has an older Radeon, forgot which) is working fine...
mrinaldotnet
04-17-2007, 08:41 PM
*bump*

Has anyone encountered this problem yet? Or been able to solve it? I still have the same problem, I'm on driver version 8.35.5 now.
Michael
04-17-2007, 08:45 PM
*bump*

Has anyone encountered this problem yet? Or been able to solve it? I still have the same problem, I'm on driver version 8.35.5 now.

I still have yet to come across this issue with a Lenovo T60. You may want to try out 8.36 once this has been released.
mrinaldotnet
04-17-2007, 08:49 PM
I still have yet to come across this issue with a Lenovo T60. You may want to try out 8.36 once this has been released.

Yep, I'll try that when it's released, although I've pretty much given up hope now. What I find strange is that I'm the only person who seems to have this problem! I use different external monitor resolutions at home and at work, so I end up having to restart X twice every day.
mrinaldotnet
04-18-2007, 01:50 PM
I still have yet to come across this issue with a Lenovo T60. You may want to try out 8.36 once this has been released.

...and I tried out 8.36. Didn't work, as I expected. But I did some further debugging in order to figure out what was going on, and I narrowed the problem down to XGL/Beryl. Everything works perfectly when I'm within a non-XGL X session.

...And I was actually able to circumvent this problem now - by running it as DISPLAY=:0 aticonfig --query-monitor. Similarly, even amdcccle works now for me, it used to just segfault earlier.

Thanks a lot for your help!
twinkle
05-29-2007, 07:55 AM
...and I tried out 8.36. Didn't work, as I expected. But I did some further debugging in order to figure out what was going on, and I narrowed the problem down to XGL/Beryl. Everything works perfectly when I'm within a non-XGL X session.

...And I was actually able to circumvent this problem now - by running it as DISPLAY=:0 aticonfig --query-monitor. Similarly, even amdcccle works now for me, it used to just segfault earlier.

Thanks a lot for your help!
I have the same problem, T60 with beryl running amdcccle segfaults and aticonfig doesn't recognize any monitors or powerplay modes.
Works fine with out beryl.

I tried to add DISPLAY:0 but it has no effect, any other ideas?