Fedora 12 on ati radeon laptop

[François Cami]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:05:59 -0700
Kevin Kempter <kevink at consistentstate.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 19 January 2010 07:55:03 François Cami wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:04:27 -0700 Kevin Kempter <kevink at consistentstate.com> wrote:
> > > how can I get dual monitors working on it? I dont care about 3D. I
> > > enabled the rpmfusion repos. I tried to install the kmod-fglrx package
> > > via yum but I get a message that no package kmod-fglrx is available.
> > 
> > You should not need fglrx to get your dual monitor setup working. If
> > you _want_ to use fglrx, this is not the place to ask.
> > 
> > With that behind us:
> > What is the name of your video card (from lspci output)?
> > What is the output of "xrandr" when the secondary monitor is plugged?
> > If it doesn't work, you should file a bug at bugzilla.redhat.com with the
> > following information, with both monitors plugged in:
> > /var/log/dmesg after booting with drm.debug=15
> > /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the feedback. Here's where I'm at:
> 
> 
> I installed system-config-display
> 
> If I plug the second monitor into the laptop before I boot, then it partially 
> works as is, if I open say a Konsole then it opens on the second screen. 
> However I cannot move my mouse to the second screen which makes it pretty 
> difficult to use te newly started konsole window.

Ok, we may still have monitor hotplug issues.
What is the name of your card again?

> Here's my xrandr output:
> 
> # xrandr
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1600 x 900, maximum 8192 x 8192
> VGA-0 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
>    1440x900       59.9 +   75.0
>    1280x1024      75.0     70.0     60.0
>    1152x864       75.0
>    1024x768       75.1     70.1     60.0
>    832x624        74.6
>    800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2
>    640x480        72.8     75.0     66.7     60.0
>    720x400        70.1
> LVDS connected 1600x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 382mm x 
> 214mm
>    1600x900       60.3*+
>    1440x900       59.9
>    1280x854       59.9
>    1280x800       59.8
>    1280x720       59.9
>    1152x768       59.8
>    1024x768       60.0     59.9
>    800x600        60.3     59.9     56.2
>    848x480        59.7
>    720x480        59.7
>    640x480        59.9     59.4

As far as I can see, KMS is not detecting your secondary monitor
correctly. Please (in this order):
* file a bug with this xrandr output, and the requested logs, at bugzilla.redhat.com
* try booting with the nomodeset boot parameter and see if it fixes your
  problem.

François