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ATI Driver + Dual Monitor?
Hello.
I freshly installed OpenBSD 4.9 i386 on my Pentium4-machine. The things I miss are, as already said, dual head support and the ATI drivers. Code:
$ uname -a OpenBSD deneb.my.domain 4.9 GENERIC.MP#794 i386 $ Please help, I couldn't find anything. Thanks in advance. |
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Thank you very much. I haven't done anything (except for fetching ports and installing gimp, feh and wget) important so far, I actually don't have any Xorg.conf.
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# dmesg | grep ATI vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "ATI Radeon HD 3650" rev 0x00 azalia0 at pci1 dev 0 function 1 "ATI Radeon HD 3600 HD Audio" rev 0x00: apic 2 int 17 (irq 3) # Code:
# pwd /etc/X11 # ls -a . app-defaults twm xinit xsm .. fs xdm xkb # Code:
$ pwd /home/kasumi $ ls -a . .mailrc .. .profile .Xauthority-n .ssh .Xdefaults .xsession-errors .cshrc openbsd_by_nicolasvergoz-d3b9hrr.jpg .login $ How do I generate an xorg.conf file? How do I have to configure it in order to use both screens? Thanks again. |
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That's the information I've expected. So I'll read it.
And, I like to read it. I want to Use OpenBSD, not Ubuntu. |
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Here I am again. I read the whole Guide now, and it seems that I have to enable the driver.
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# X -configure X.Org X Server 1.9.3 Release Date: 2010-12-13 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: OpenBSD 4.9 i386 Current Operating System: OpenBSD deneb.my.domain 4.9 GENERIC.MP#794 i386 Build Date: 01 March 2011 10:38:27AM Current version of pixman: 0.20.2 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Sep 15 21:40:51 2011 List of video drivers: apm ark ati chips cirrus dummy geode glint i128 i740 intel mach64 mga neomagic nv openchrome r128 radeon radeonhd rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis tdfx trident tseng wsudl vmware vmwlegacy voodoo vesa X:/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeonhd_drv.so: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so : WARNING: symbol(AtomBiosRequestList) size mismatch, relink your program (EE) Failed to load module "vmwgfx" (module does not exist, 0) (EE) vmware: Please ignore the above warnings about not being able to to load module/driver vmwgfx (++) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf.new" Xorg detected your mouse at device /dev/wsmouse. Please check your config if the mouse is still not operational, as by default Xorg tries to autodetect the protocol. Your xorg.conf file is /root/xorg.conf.new To test the server, run 'X -config /root/xorg.conf.new' # EDIT: When testing X, I've the same results, just like before. Last edited by ocicat; 15th September 2011 at 07:51 PM. Reason: Please use [code] & [/code] tags when posting command output. |
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Ignore the error about vmwgfx. You don't need it. Once you have generated an xorg.conf file with 'Xorg -configure' you still have to modify it to enable both monitors. I suggest taking a look at:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2 http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12 Basically, you'll edit your xorg.conf file to have two monitor sections, give them the identifiers that 'xrandr' uses, and set one of them to be to the left or right of the other. Something like so: Code:
Section "Monitor" Identifier "DVI-0" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "DVI-1" Option "RightOf" "DVI-0" EndSection |
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Oh, and for further reference, here is my xorg.conf that I use to drive 1600x900 and 1680x1050 monitors with the 'radeon' driver:
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Section "Monitor" Identifier "DVI-0" Option "RightOf" "DVI-1" Option "PreferredMode" "1680x1050" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "DVI-1" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Radeon" SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Virtual 3600 3600 EndSubSection EndSection Adam |
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Hey, it's me again. I'm still using OpenBSD; but replaced the two monitors by one FullHD-screen with 1920x1080.
Thank you very much for help so far, but I still don't get how to use the radeon drivers. And, what's the difference between radeon and radeonhd? Are there any included by default? Which one is the easier to configure and use? |
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I'm not sure what you mean by not knowing how to use the radeon drivers. If you're using a single monitor, there's not much to know. Are you having a specific problem now?
The radeon driver will be used by default. It's also the only driver you should really use. radeonhd is no longer developed or supported by anyone. |
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As adamk said, the radeonhd driver is no longer developed.. but OpenBSD contains both an older radeon driver along with radeonhd, at one point the radeonhd driver supported newer GPU chipsets but that is no longer the case.
There are some problems preventing the upgrade of the radeon driver in OpenBSD, so both drivers are kept.. but eventually when the radeon driver gets updated, I suspect the radeonhd driver will be removed. |
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Heh. Tha abandonment is not noted in the source code (other than no updates in a couple of years), nor in the man page, but it is noted ... sort of ... on the official X.Org radeonhd wiki. Sorry I missed it.
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There was a commit by one of the radeonhd developers that was made months after any activity which was humourous.
TerryP posted it here for me, I figured it was common knowledge now that Novell's radeonhd driver was deprecated.. articles at phoronix and mailing lists have indicated so for quite some time. It started out as a cooperation between Novell and AMD to add support for the R500 series GPU's which were quite different. AMD also released NDA-free GPU documentation and information about AtomBIOS to the public which allowed the radeon developers to add support to their driver. http://developer.amd.com/documentati....aspx#open_gpu http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/ The radeonhd driver became pointless. AMD now has paid developers working on the radeon driver, and nobody has committed to the radeonhd driver since 2010. |
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At the time that radeonhd development was stopped, the only thing that driver supported, which radeon was missing, was HDMI audio support. radeon does now support that, but only via KMS. As a result, if you have an HD4xxx or HD5xxx GPU on FreeBSD/OpenBSD, radeonhd is the only way to get audio from the sound card. That's the only time I would recommend radeonhd over radeon any more.
Adam |
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