Bug 144238 – mkxf86config: Some radeon cards need Option "MonitorLayout" to be set

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Christian Heim (RETIRED) 2006-08-17 12:31:02 UTC]

As the summary said, some radeon video cards (at least my FireGL) need the Xorg Option MonitorLayout set to something like the following:

        Option      "MonitorLayout"       "LVDS, NONE"

Otherwise Xorg will only show 640x480 regardless anything the mkxf86config script is recognizing (resolution wise).

Another solution would be to fix the radeon driver to get the right MonitorLayout (which is way out of the 2006.1 release window).

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-08-24 05:25:17 UTC]

Everything is way out of the release window at this point.

Anyway, do you know of a way to determine which cards need this and which don't?  Can it be determined from lspci output?

[Comment 2 Christian Heim (RETIRED) 2006-08-27 10:04:09 UTC]

Nope, absolutly no clue which card requires this and which not. Guess it needs some deeper analysis. Feel free to close it LATER/WONTFIX.

[Comment 3 Guenther Brunthaler 2006-10-14 10:40:02 UTC]

I can confirm this bug for ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] using xorg driver "ati".

Thanks for the workaround, Christian!

[Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2007-01-04 15:18:24 UTC]

Christian, do you still have this hardware?  I have a newer LiveCD that I've been working with and wouldn't mind letting you test it so we can see if we can resolve this.

[Comment 5 Christian Heim (RETIRED) 2007-01-05 05:32:04 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Christian, do you still have this hardware?  I have a newer LiveCD that I've
> been working with and wouldn't mind letting you test it so we can see if we can
> resolve this.

Yeah, still possess my Notebook with the ATi FireGL :) just ping me on IRC, I'm back from vacation.

[Comment 6 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2008-04-03 16:45:24 UTC]

Christian, can you try booting 2008.0 Beta 1 on your laptop and see if we're still experiencing this?

[Comment 7 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2008-04-04 02:01:59 UTC]

*** Bug 216000 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2008-04-04 06:10:52 UTC]

I wouldn't mind if you want to try slipping the 6.8 driver in... it's been in the tree since February 19 and out of p.mask since March 15.

[Comment 9 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2008-04-08 15:03:52 UTC]

Will the 6.8 driver work w/ xorg-server 1.3?

[Comment 10 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2008-04-09 07:32:03 UTC]

(In reply to comment #9)
> Will the 6.8 driver work w/ xorg-server 1.3?

It should.

[Comment 11 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2008-04-10 05:46:17 UTC]

Well, I did a double whammy and pulled in the new ATI driver *and* added code to mkxf86config for this... ;]

Both are updated in the Beta 2 snapshot, so we'll see how it goes.

[Comment 12 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2011-03-08 11:37:02 UTC]

This bug should be closed, given the fact now mkxf86config is not required at all :)

Also removing x11 from cc cause there is nothing for us left to do.

[Comment 13 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2011-05-13 20:23:15 UTC]

I'm closing this bug as we don't have livecds any more and per last comment.