[LUNI] Ubuntu and ATI FirePro 2260 (PCI) cards

[Richard Lynch]

Dual head on Linux is a PITA...

Last I checked, you could only get it to work if the monitors were set
with pixel sizes and alignment to form a rectangle, not an L.

I.e., this is kosher:

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This is NOT:
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Windows and Mac just make it work.  Linux, not so much...

You can always try the proprietary drivers...

I believe you are in the land of bleeding edge of the envelope for
Xorg configuration...


On Thu, October 14, 2010 3:52 pm, Cedrick Johnson wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> Been banging my head trying to get a new dual head ATI FirePro 2260
> (PCI, dual DisplayPort outputs) card working with Ubuntu 10.04. I have
> an existing dual head ATI FireGL V3400 card in the PCI-E slot. The new
> card (to give me a total of 4) is in a plain old PCI slot.
>
> The V3400 works seamlessly. However, the new card will only display
> one port instead of two. I removed the V3400 and just tried driving
> two monitors with the new one, to no avail. It will only open one port
> and one port only.
>
> 1- ruled out a HW failure on the part of the adapter, it works fine in
> another #shudder* XP system. Both of them actually run, producing 4
> displays.
>
> 2- could it be that I need the ATI/Radeon 'proprietary' drivers from
> the ubuntu repository?
>
> This is the following from my syslog:
> [drm] radeon: ring at 0x0000000020000000
> [   16.609673] [drm] ring test succeeded in 8 usecs
> [   16.609934] [drm] radeon: ib pool ready.
> [   16.610785] [drm] ib test succeeded in 0 usecs
> [   16.611061] [drm] Radeon Display Connectors
> [   16.611066] [drm] Connector 0:
> [   16.611070] [drm]   DVI-I
> [   16.611073] [drm]   HPD1
> [   16.611077] [drm]   DDC: 0x7e40 0x7e40 0x7e44 0x7e44 0x7e48 0x7e48
> 0x7e4c 0x7e4c
> [   16.611081] [drm]   Encoders:
> [   16.611085] [drm]     CRT1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC1
> [   16.611088] [drm]     DFP1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_TMDS1
> [   16.611092] [drm] Connector 1:
> [   16.611096] [drm]   DVI-I
> [   16.611098] [drm]   HPD2
> [   16.611103] [drm]   DDC: 0x7e50 0x7e50 0x7e54 0x7e54 0x7e58 0x7e58
> 0x7e5c 0x7e5c
> [   16.611106] [drm]   Encoders:
> [   16.611109] [drm]     CRT2: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC2
> [   16.611112] [drm]     DFP3: INTERNAL_LVTM1
> [   16.900505] [drm] fb mappable at 0xD00C0000
> [   16.900510] [drm] vram apper at 0xD0000000
> [   16.900512] [drm] size 5299200
> [   16.900514] [drm] fb depth is 24
> [   16.900516] [drm]    pitch is 5888
> [   16.900628] fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
> [   16.976592] radeon 0000:06:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
> [   16.976610] radeon 0000:06:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low)
> -> IRQ 18
> [   16.976626] radeon 0000:06:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> [   16.982711] [drm] radeon: Initializing kernel modesetting.
> [   16.984043] [drm] register mmio base: 0xFE4F0000
> [   16.984047] [drm] register mmio size: 65536
> [   17.382071] vga16fb: initializing
> [   17.382078] vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
> [   17.382085] vga16fb: not registering due to another framebuffer
> present
>
> [  178.176766] [drm:dp_link_train] *ERROR* clock recovery failed
> [  178.177284] [drm:atom_dp_get_link_status] *ERROR* displayport link
> status failed
> [  178.177287] [drm:dp_link_train] *ERROR* channel eq failed
> [  189.158887] [drm:atom_dp_get_link_status] *ERROR* displayport link
> status failed
>
> ....This repeats for about 10 more times..
>
> Any ideas or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> CJ
>
>
>
>
>
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