Dual monitors - right one doesn't work right away

Paul Schmehl pauls at utdallas.edu
Fri May 20 14:39:22 PDT 2005


I just installed 5.4 RELEASE, cvsup'd the ports and portupgraded everything 
to current.  I'm using one ATI Radeon X300 card and two monitors with 
Xinerama.  When I first login, only the left screen displays its half of 
the desktop.  (I'm using gdm and gnome, but xdm with twm does the exact 
same thing.)

After a while (30 minutes or more) the right monitor will begin displaying 
its half of the desktop.

I've been hunting through the logs and googling trying to figure out what 
the cause is, but so far I'm stumped.

This is a copy of the most recent display log (but they all look about the 
same.)

 less /var/log/\:0.log

X Window System Version 6.8.2
Release Date: 9 February 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2
Build Operating System: FreeBSD 5.4 i386 [ELF]
Current Operating System: FreeBSD utd59514.utdallas.edu 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 
5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May  8 10:21:06 UTC 2005 
root at harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
Build Date: 20 May 2005
        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri May 20 16:07:53 2005
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/, removing 
from list!
AUDIT: Fri May 20 16:24:03 2005: 567 X: client 4 rejected from local host

And this is all the warnings in the Xorg.0.log:

 grep WW /var/log/Xorg.0.log
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
(WW) RADEON(0): Failed to detect secondary monitor, MergedFB/Clone mode 
disabled
(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering not yet supported on Radeon 9500 and newer 
cards
(WW) RADEON(1): Direct rendering not yet supported on Radeon 9500 and newer 
cards

(dri is not enabled in the xorg.conf file.)

If anyone has a clue or can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate 
it.  I've already posted my xorg.conf file to the list, so I won't do that 
again.  Look through the archives.

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu


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