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

[Trev Peterson]

I know I've done the L config on the Nvidia drivers.  Was no problem
really.

On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 21:30 -0500, Richard Lynch wrote:
> 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:
> 
> +--------------++---------------+
> |              ||               |
> |              ||               |
> |              ||               |
> |              ||               |
> +--------------++---------------+
> 
> This is NOT:
> +--------------++---------------+
> |              ||               |
> |              ||               |
> |              ||               |
> +--------------+|               |
>                 |               |
>                 +---------------+
> 
> 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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