nouveau and double monitor error

Gianluca Cecchi gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 10:24:31 UTC 2009


On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:57:25 -0700 Adam Williamson wrote:
> Could you check if hitting the 'auto-adjust' button on the monitor fixes this or not?
I did the installation with the external lcd 19" connected to the vga.
At first boot both the displays were not able to show the "Next" buttons...
But I didn't try to auto-adjust the external one (and on the laptop I
presume it is impossible... correct?)
During install Xorg chooses a mirror (or clone .. donna if they are
the same thing) config and probably the fact that one is 4/3 and the
other is 16/9 bring problems inside....
X.log I saved during install in fact contains :

(--) PCI:*(0 at 1:0:0) nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M GS rev 161, Mem @
0xf5000000/16777216, 0xe0000000/268435456, 0xf2000000/33554432, I/O @
 0x0000ef00/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
...
(--) NOUVEAU(0): Chipset: "NVIDIA NV86"
...
(II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID for output LVDS-0
(II) NOUVEAU(0): Manufacturer: LCD  Model: 2306  Serial#: 943142449
...
(II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "1280x800"x60.0   72.10  1280 1296 1344 1448
 800 802 804 830 -hsync -vsync (49.8 kHz)
...
(II) NOUVEAU(0): I2C device "VGA-1:E-EDID segment register" registered
at address 0x60.
(II) NOUVEAU(0): I2C device "VGA-1:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(II) NOUVEAU(0): Detected a Analog output on VGA-1
...
(II) NOUVEAU(0): Manufacturer: PHL  Model: 830  Serial#: 220595
...
(II) NOUVEAU(0): Monitor name: Philips 190B
...
(--) NOUVEAU(0): Virtual size is 1280x1280 (pitch 1280)
(**) NOUVEAU(0):  Driver mode "1280x800": 72.1 MHz (scaled from 0.0
MHz), 49.8 kHz, 60.0 Hz
(II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "1280x800"x60.0   72.10  1280 1296 1344 1448
 800 802 804 830 -hsync -vsync (49.8 kHz)

So that virtual size seems strange...
I can send it entirely if it may help. this virtual size is the same
during first boot

Eventually I can try to do same install in these conditions and check results:
1) external monitor disconnected
2) external monitor connected, both at install phase and first reboot
phase, and auto adjust on it after first reboot

Gianluca




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