How to get highest resolution on external display automatically? (radeon driver)

[moritz]

Hi!

After the hint to use the free radeon driver instead of a half working fglrx I got another problem I can't solve:
I'm using a Thinkpad T60 with Debian testing and KDE. If it's on its docking station and I start it I never get the correct resolution on the external display automatically. With fglrx the laptop display was turned off and the resolution was set to 1900x1200 on the external display. Now the internal LCD isn't turned off and the resolution is set to 1280x960 on both displays. When I go into "System Settings" -> "Display", the resolution is set to 1900x1200 directly on the external display but it's a bit annoying to do that after every boot. How can I get the behaviour I had with the fglrx (internal LCD off, resolution to max on the external one)?

My xorg.conf:

[..]                    

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
        Option          "UseFBDev"              "true"
EndSection                                            

Section "DRI"
        Mode         0666
EndSection               

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Builtin Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Module"
        SubSection  "extmod"
          Option  "omit xfree86-dga"
        EndSubSection
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "GLcore"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
        Option      "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
        Option      "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
        Option      "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Driver          "radeon"
        VendorName      "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName       "Radeon X1400"
        Identifier      "X1400"
        BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
        Option          "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
        Option          "MonitorLayout"         "TDMS, LVDS"
        Option          "DynamicClocks"         "on"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
        Device     "X1400"
        Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
        DefaultDepth 24
        SubSection "Display"
                Modes "1900x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection


Section "Extensions"
        Option  "Composite"     "1"
EndSection

[agd5f]

see this page:
http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12

[moritz]

Mmm I'm sorry but I'm kinda new to this stuff and if I understand that link correctly there's explained how to get "one big desktop" with serveral displays. But that's not what I want for now. I just want the correct resolution (1400x1050) on the laptop display when it's not plugged into the docking station and on the other hand also the correct one on the external display (1900x1200) when it's plugged in. Maybe I don't understand it correctly so it'd be really nice if you could give me some further help with that.

[pvtcupcakes]

Mmm I'm sorry but I'm kinda new to this stuff and if I understand that link correctly there's explained how to get "one big desktop" with serveral displays. But that's not what I want for now. I just want the correct resolution (1400x1050) on the laptop display when it's not plugged into the docking station and on the other hand also the correct one on the external display (1900x1200) when it's plugged in. Maybe I don't understand it correctly so it'd be really nice if you could give me some further help with that.

Here is an excerpt of my xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Device0"
        Driver      "radeon" 
        Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
        Option "DRI" "on"         
        Option "Monitor-DVI-0" "Acer"
        Option "Monitor-DVI-1" "Dell"
EndSection                           

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "Acer"
        Modeline "1680x1050_60.00"  147.14  1680 1784 1968 2256  1050 1051 1054 1087  -HSync +Vsync
        Option "PreferredMode" "1680x1050"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "Dell"
        Option "LeftOf" "Acer"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Device0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   24
                Virtual 2960 1050
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Not sure if the Modeline part for my "Acer" monitor is needed, but I have it there.

However, I'm not sure if this is hot-pluggable like you want. I have two monitors, but if I unplug one, it will probably think it's still there. So I would likely "lose" windows if I move them off screen.

[moritz]

Yeah again, you're working with a big desktop too but I don't want a big desktop!

[moritz]

Okay it looks like I got it working with the following xorg.conf now!

[..]
Section "DRI"
        Mode         0666
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        Screen          "Default Screen"
        InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        SubSection  "extmod"
          Option  "omit xfree86-dga"
        EndSubSection
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "GLcore"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "record"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Intergrated LCD"
        Option          "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "External DVI"
        Option          "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "VGA"
        Option          "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Driver          "radeon"
        Identifier      "X1400"
        BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
        Option          "DynamicCliocks" "on"
        Option          "AccelMethod"   "EXA"
        Option          "Monitor-DVI-0" "External DVI"
        Option          "Monitor-LVDS"  "Integrated LCD"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device          "X1400"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Modes   "1920x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024"
                Depth   24
        EndSubSection
EndSection


Section "Extensions"
        Option          "Composite" "1"
EndSection

[agd5f]

Try:
Option "IgnoreLidStatus" "FALSE"
this depend on your laptop reporting lid status properly though acpi.

[moritz]

Sounds interesting. I'll give it a try

[moritz]

Mmm doesn't seem to work for real. At least KRandR is still telling me it's not disabled.