Description of problem: Troubles with dualhead video (Radeon x600) during boot. I have a SONY digital TV attached to DVI out and LG CRT monitor attached to VGA out, S-video out is not used now. When i try to boot with nomodeset text messages are shown on the both TV and monitor, but before switch to graphic mode Xorg caught signal 11 and died. Here is Xorg.0.log http://pastebin.com/TY7qd12H When i try to boot without nomodeset monitor turned off when boot begin and all text messages and gdm display in graphic mode are shown only on TV. CRT is off untill I login into gnome. In gnome I have worked VGA monitor as first monitor and TV as second. kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-48.fc14.x86_64 ro root=UUID=d783a245-2652-4e90-ac52-2bfcc24f975b rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us nomodeset In Fedora 12 I boot with such xorg.conf http://pastebin.com/mRc0P1yS In fedora 12 it show gdm on both TV and monitor and after login I have display spanning on both TV and monitor. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Work in xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.6-4.fc12.x84_64 Failed in xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.9.1-2.fc14 How reproducible: Always on my PC Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add nomodeset to kernel parameters and boot with two monitors Actual results: Xorg dies Expected results: Xorg alive and work Additional info:
Created attachment 459130 [details] xorg.conf from pastebin
Created attachment 459131 [details] Xorg.0.log from pastebin
I think Xorg could work without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Let it startup in whatever mode it starts, and then set dual-monitors with gnome-desktop-properties (note the button "Make Default"). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 623824 ***
With nomodeset Xorg crash either with xorg.conf either without Without nomodeset Xorg work but CRT monitor stays off till I login and turns off when i log out. with gnome-desktop-properties LG CRT monitor (F720P) set as first 1024x768@85Hz, Sony TV placed in the right of LG and set as 1360x768@60Hz May be I described 2 different bugs?
There is a repeated message in text console (CTRL-ALT-F1) [ 1414.118918] [drm] crtc 1 is connected to a TV
Solved without nomodeset With gnome-display-properties generated monitors.xml (/home/username/.config/monitors.xml) (http://pastebin.com/ZKTPWpeX) Then I put it in /etc/gnome-settings-daemon/xrandr/ and modify some options by hand http://pastebin.com/A2TXbxUv System wide config looks only first configuration section So I have my favorite configuration Cloned gdm display and spaned user display Also I change some variables in /etc/gconf/schemas/apps_gnome_settings_daemon_xrandr.schemas from false to true. Great thanks to Matej Cepl and Mamoru Tasaka https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623824#c15 It will be great if system wide monitors.xml can be generated from some GUI
(In reply to comment #3) > gnome-desktop-properties (note the button "Make Default"). I noted it only when I solved this "He that has ears to hear, let him hear"
Without nomodeset in text mode console on VGA still doesnt work.
(In reply to comment #4) > With nomodeset Xorg crash either with xorg.conf either without If it works in KMS and doesn't work w/o we usually don't care that much ... nomodeset is just a crutch for situations when KMS doesn't work. > Without nomodeset Xorg work but CRT monitor stays off till I login and turns > off when i log out. > with gnome-desktop-properties LG CRT monitor (F720P) set as first > 1024x768@85Hz, > Sony TV placed in the right of LG and set as 1360x768@60Hz This looks really like a bug 623824.
Closing again. This actually IS a duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 623824 ***
In text-console fixed with 1)read http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModeSetting 2)ls /sys/class/drm/card*/* This give us name of video outs in text mode (differs from graphic mode). 3)add video=SVIDEO-1:d video=VGA-1024x768@85 to kernel in /boot/grub/grub.cfg Is it possible to have GUI or TUI for this?