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Hi.
I have a laptop with a ATI Radeon 9700 running Ubuntu 5.04. When I connect an external monitor to the computer and boot it, everything works fine until Gnome starts. Then the picture on the external monitor disappears and it
shows a "no signal" error.
Any suggestions?
-Henriette
My xorg.conf looks like this:
Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
# paths to defoma fonts
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
EndSection
I tried doing what the link told me to do and now I actually have a clone mode running. One problem though. The picture on the laptop display is to big to fit the screen resulting in the picture moving all over the place. How can I make it fit the screen (which is 1400x1050)?
Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
#FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
# paths to defoma fonts
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
EndSection
I am running redhat enterprise WS and ATI driver pack 8.12 for XFree86 4.3 on a laptop that has a built in ATI 9700 (M10).
My problem is that I tried the TwinView commands as stated here which have always worked on NVIDIA cards and I get a message in the XFree86.0.log stating it is not supported.
With the XF86Config-4 I get from the fglrxconfig program I can use my second monitor but it blanks my laptop monitor and a line in the same log file says it does not even see a monitor on the second head.
Any advice?
Jonathan
PS: Tried the config listed here just for fun and it got same messages
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