New ati-drivers killed my dual screen setup :(

Nar

Hi People

After emergeing the new ati-drivers my dual screen setup stoped working

Everything seems to be fine, but only me secondary screen work. The primary screen is blank !? I did not do anything to the conf file. Did ati break the dual screen setup with there new drivers ?

Running the following software:

sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources
Latest version available: 2.6.10-r6
Latest version installed: 2.6.10-r6
media-video/ati-drivers
Latest version available: 8.8.25
Latest version installed: 8.8.25
x11-base/xorg-x11
Latest version available: 6.8.1.902
Latest version installed: 6.8.1.902

Any help will help

Thanks

nar*

Wedge_ · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:50 am Post subject:

Does this bug report sound like the same issue?
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Nar · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 12:07 pm Post subject:

Hi Wedge_

Same probleme (bug)

thanks for the reply. Also my DVI that is not working

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Wedge_ · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 12:35 pm Post subject:

The person who reported the bug has already tried a lot of stuff to fix this (we talked via PM), but nothing seemed to help. Probably the best thing to do for the moment is to downgrade to Xorg 6.7, and maybe report it to ATI: http://apps.ati.com/linuxDfeedback/index.asp.
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Arainach · l33t Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 609

After upgrading from X.Org 6.7 to 6.8, there are some pretty major changes. Run fglrxconfig again to create a new X.Org Config file.
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Wedge_ · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 12:55 pm Post subject:

We tried that already, but there aren't that many changes anyway. The most important part of the config is the ATI device section, and that wasn't changed by either of the people who are having the problem. It looks like a driver problem at the moment.
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Nar · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 1:05 pm Post subject:

I agree. also run the config tool again. Same results.

energy · n00b Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Oulu, Finland

My computer just locks up when trying to start X with new ati-drivers and xorg 6.8.x. After typing startx it just gives blank screen in monitor and TV and freezes. Only using hardware reset helps. I had to downgrade back to xorg 6.7.0 and old ati-drivers. Running the config tool has no effect.

ultrasonic · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 55

I have the same problem. But when I reverted back to x0rg 6.70 and ati-drivers 3.14.6 it still continued!!! I couldn't even get my dual setup back from the old way. I booted into windows and dual works fine but not in linux. I dont understand why I can't even revert. lspci -v gives