Perhaps this bug should be posted upstream. If so, please direct me to the correct place, as I failed to find it. I recently switched from x11-drivers/ati-drivers to x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd. But I have this problem: My laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad T60 with a Mobility Radeon X1400) has a build-in panel with 1400*1050 resolution. With the proprietary driver, I could switch to lower resolutions with xrandr / krandrtray, but with the open driver, only 1400*1050 is supported. This causes two problems with external displays: 1. I cannot use an attached projector without first disabling the panel, then enabling the projector. If I try to enable the projector with 'xrandr --output VGA_1 --auto' without first disabling the panel I get this error: X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 155 (RANDR) Minor opcode of failed request: 21 () Serial number of failed request: 17 Current serial number in output stream: 17 2. When I boot the laptop docked with an external flatscreen (1280x1024) attached, X comes up with both the panel and the external display turned on, and in resolution 1400x1050 with only part of the screen shown. It should IMHO come up with only the external display enabled, as did the proprietary driver. I work around this by running a script in /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm/Xsetup using xrandr to disable the panel if the external display is connected. Unfortunately, by the time this script is run, X has already got its resolution and screen size from the panel, so I get huge fonts until I log out and in again. I have no problem living with problem 2, but problem 1 is really annoying as I am teaching (Don't get me wrong: I think the guys developping this drivers are doing an excellent and difficult job). Best regards Jakob Reproducible: Always # emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz Timestamp of tree: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:46:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r14, 2.5.2-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.uni-c.dk/pub/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi alsa amd64 arts asf atlas bash-completion berkdb bluetooth bzip2 cddb cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dri dvd dvdr dvdread emacs encode firefox foomaticdb fortran gcj gd gdbm gif gimp gpm gs iconv idn imagemagick imap isdnlog java jbig jpeg jpeg2k kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas maildir mbox midi mime mjpeg mmap mmx mp3 mpeg mpi mudflap multilib ncurses netcdf nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcmcia pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 quicktime readline reflection scanner session smp spell spl sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd tetex tiff tk unicode usb vcd wxwindows xine xorg xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X1400 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) 15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller
Perhaps you're seeing https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14500
Thanks for your comment. I don't think that problem is relevant, but my problem number 2 (and possibly 1 as well) is this bug, that seems to have been fixed in their source control system. Perhaps I can try I snapshot (shudder!) https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14072 I will investigate problem 1 further, an old xrandr might contribute. I will report back next week. If I find a real problem, should I report it here or at bugs.freedesktop.org (or both)? /Jakob
I have an ebuild that will install the latest svn. It's in my overlay. You can get it if you have layman by "layman -a je_fro" and then emerge xf86-video-radeonhd-9999
With your ebuild, and the version of the driver from yesterday, the problems seem to be solved. I could then add Option "RROutputOrder" "DVI-D_1 PANEL" to xorg.conf, as mentioned in the bug referred in your comment #1. And everything works! Thank you very much indeed! /Jakob PS. I have not closed the bug since the fix is not in the Gentoo tree yet. Is that the correct procedure?
Closing :) Thanks!
