dual head, output initialization

joaoBR joao at matik.com.br
Fri Aug 31 18:00:52 UTC 2012


On 31/08/2012 14:56, Warren Block wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, joaoBR wrote:
> 
>> I hope somebody know something about this
>>
>> I have a dual-head setup (2 connector/one card) on all computers here,
>> different types of radeon cards
>>
>> all cards, often, do not initialize the second output
>>
>> this either with vga/dvi or dvi0/dvi1
>>
>> often, the second port gets activated with x startup, but sometimes
>> needs several reboot before the second monitor get juice
>>
>> it is on 8 and 9-stable
>>
>> I noticed that on some fedora16 I have it never happens, always both
>> outputs are coming up soon system boot begins, either with graphic or
>> text mode
>>
>> so my guess is I am missing somewhere something I do not know or it is a
>> FreeBSD problem
>>
>> any opinion on this?
> 
> Does the xorg.conf specifically tie monitors to outputs in the Device
> section?
> 
>   Option      "Monitor-DVI-0" "Monitor0"
>   Option      "Monitor-VGA-0" "Monitor1"


yes, I have it in the device section



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