Dual Monitors on Opensource ATI driver works in gnome not KDE/XFCE (9.04 beta)

[lordmozilla]

My problem is simple, I can get dual head working fine on my fanless ATI HD4550 if I use gnome.

My card has a DVI, a HDMI and a VGA. I use the VGA and DVI, but on KDE both screens are seen as the same. SO when i click detect screens it shows VGA-0/DVI-0 on both screens.

So its pretty confused.

XFCE only sees one screen. and basically clones them.

here is my xorg.conf file

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Configured Screen Device"
Device "Configured Video Device"
SubSection "Display"
Virtual 3840 1200
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "False"
EndSection

And the output of xrandr -q

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 3840 x 1200
VGA-0 connected 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 518mm x 324mm
1920x1200 60.0*+
1600x1200 60.0
1280x1024 75.0 60.0
1152x864 75.0
1024x768 75.0 60.0
800x600 75.0 60.3
640x480 75.0 59.9
720x400 70.1
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-0 connected 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 518mm x 324mm
1920x1200 60.0*+
1600x1200 60.0
1280x1024 75.0 60.0
1152x864 75.0
1024x768 75.0 60.0
800x600 75.0 60.3
640x480 75.0 59.9
720x400 70.1

Any help would be appreciated!

[lordmozilla]

sorry for posting it in the wrong section, can someone move it to the opensource forum? cheers?

[tettamanti]

My problem is simple, I can get dual head working fine on my fanless ATI HD4550 if I use gnome.

My card has a DVI, a HDMI and a VGA. I use the VGA and DVI, but on KDE both screens are seen as the same. SO when i click detect screens it shows VGA-0/DVI-0 on both screens.

AFAICS you cannot unclone the screens using KDE4 "System Settings". You can do that using xrandr:

xrandr --output DVI-0 --right-of VGA-0 --auto

(of course you can adjust the position according to your own needs)

I use a similar setup daily and KDE4 seems to remember the configuration so you just need to configure it once. And BTW if you open Display Settings it will revert to cloning

[lordmozilla]

nope the xrandr command does nothing :-(

Any ideas?

[tettamanti]

nope the xrandr command does nothing :-(

"nothing" as in "there's no output at all and the screens stay cloned"?

[lordmozilla]

yes that's exactly what I meant

[tettamanti]

Hum
What driver are you using (and what version)? Do you see anything suspicious in the log file?

[lordmozilla]

default ubuntu 9.04 beta drivers and logs Xorg.0.log shows stuff like this :

Blank CRTC 1 success
Disable CRTC 1 success
Disable CRTC memreq 1 success
Enable CRTC memreq 0 success
Enable CRTC 0 success
Unblank CRTC 0 success
Enable CRTC memreq 1 success
Enable CRTC 1 success
Unblank CRTC 1 success
Output CRT2 disable success
Output DIG dpms success
Enable CRTC memreq 0 success
Enable CRTC 0 success
Unblank CRTC 0 success
Output CRT2 enable success
Enable CRTC memreq 1 success
Enable CRTC 1 success
Unblank CRTC 1 success
Output DIG dpms success

[audir8]

I use kde with two monitors, and the kde configuration tools suck for this. Here's the command my .bashrc does twice (konsole always starts at startup).. once does not work for some reason (it just turns off one monitor).

xrandr --output VGA-0 --pos 0x0 --mode 1920x1200 --output DVI-0 --pos 1920x0 --mode 1920x1200

I'm using the latest releases and sometimes git.