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[Henrik Olsson <henrik@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:27, Nicklas Overgaard <nicklas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, I had 2 x 24" @ 1920x1080 screens running on the intel card, via HDMI
> + VGA.
>
> Which versions of libdrm and the likes are you running with? I'm regularily
> compiling from freedesktop's GIT, maybe that makes the difference.
>
> And i'm running gnome 3.2, but I don't believe that makes the difference.
>
> And yes, that is the bugreport :)
>
> /Nicklas
>
>
> On 2012-01-03 16:23, Gyhor wrote:
>>
>> Am 03.01.2012 15:03, schrieb Nicklas Overgaard:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Welcome and happy new year :)
>>
>> thank you :)
>>
>>> Yeah, none of us have successfully gotten the ATI card working, but there
>>> is a
>>> bug report somewhere regarding the issue (in the freedesktop tracker).
>>
>>
>>> I have been running dual screen without the PMD though - one via HDMI and
>>> the
>>> other via VGA, and it worked flawlessly with GNOME3, so give it a try!
>>
>>
>> I don't get it working. I tried it with gnome-shell and unity - no luck.
>>
>> Only one external display is getting a signal. Both together doesn't work.
>> There is error message, that none of the modeline are working.
>>
>> Maybe it is to much for intel gfx card? two external displays with
>> 1680x1050 and the internal with 1600x900?
>>
>> do you mean this bug report?
>> - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41265
>>
>> best regards
>> Gyhor
>>
>>> BR
>>> Nicklas
>>>
>>> On 2012-01-03 11:52, Gyhor wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> i have a Sony VPC-Z21 with the external PMD (Dockingstation with an ATI
>>>> Radeon
>>>> HD 6700M).
>>>> After reading trough the mailing list and different bug-entries i have a
>>>> semi-functional installation :/
>>>> With Kernel 3.2RC7 the following things are working:
>>>> - The F-keys (F3,F4,F5,F6,F7,F12)
>>>> - Suspend
>>>> - Audio
>>>> - Wlan (with intel wireless enabled in kernel)
>>>> - Intel gfx with 3d
>>>> - clickpad is working (after the description from DoTheDog)
>>>> - PMD is only working if it is connect before booting
>>>> - PMD Network, USB, CD
>>>> - VGA direct from the notebook
>>>> - ASSIST and WEB Key
>>>>
>>>> That is not working:
>>>> - Key "VAIO" is not working (no events with xev)
>>>> - Radeon Card in the PMD (Dockingstation)
>>>>
>>>> The bad thing is, that without the radeon card there is no dual monitor
>>>> configuration :(
>>>>
>>>> I was digging around and found this bug-reports, which could be helpful:
>>>> - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41265
>>>> - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40576
>>>> - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.usb.general/55899
>>>>
>>>> I tried the radeon and the fglx driver and none of them with success.
>>>>
>>>> In dmesg it got this messages:
>>>> [ 41.336665] [Firmware Bug]: Duplicate ACPI video bus devices for the
>>>> same VGA
>>>> controller, please try module parameter "video.allow_duplicates=1"if the
>>>> current driver doesn't work.
>>>>
>>>> and
>>>>
>>>> [ 41.338525] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (TURKS 0x1002:0x6740
>>>> 0x104D:0x9084).
>>>> [ 41.338550] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64
>>>> [ 41.338569] [drm] register mmio base: 0xC0200000
>>>> [ 41.338571] [drm] register mmio size: 131072
>>>> [ 41.338650] radeon 0000:16:00.0: Invalid ROM contents
>>>> [ 41.338756] radeon 0000:16:00.0: Invalid ROM contents
>>>> [ 41.338794] [drm:radeon_get_bios] *ERROR* Unable to locate a BIOS ROM
>>>> [ 41.338815] radeon 0000:16:00.0: Fatal error during GPU init
>>>> [ 41.338835] [drm] radeon: finishing device
>>>>
>>>> [ 41.339927] vga_switcheroo: disabled
>>>> [ 41.340193] radeon 0000:16:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
>>>> [ 41.340200] radeon: probe of 0000:16:00.0 failed with error -22
>>>>
>>>> i don't know what to do. if i don't get a dual monitor configuration to
>>>> work,
>>>> i have to send the notebook back or worse i have to use windows ;/
>>>>
>>>> thanks and a happy new year
>>>> Gyhor
>>>>
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I can confirm running HDMI + VGA at the same time, using kernel
3.2.0-rc7 and the xorg-edgers repository for ubuntu. Though the VGA is
flickering when moving windows, which is annoying enough to make it
unusable. Do you not have any flicker?

Regards,
Henrik