[ydl-gen] Radeon 9600 XT and dual head video
Rob Sanders
rarob at comcast.net
Mon Oct 22 17:51:21 MDT 2007
Hello all,
Does anyone have some tips on how to get dual head video working with
YDL4.0.91 or YDL4.1 with
the Radeon 9600 XT? My company purchased a 2ghz dual G5 tower in the
summer of '04 for me to
use, and I later bought it from them. It came from TSS with the Radeon
9600 XT (the version with both
an ADC connector and a DVI connector). I've used it for 3 years with
one monitor plugged into the DVI
connector. I've been doing more work from home, and decided to get a
second monitor to use. Both
of my monitors are 20" Sceptre X20WG LCDs. The Sceptre's have both DVI
and VGA inputs.
For the past 3 years I've used the DVI->VGA adaptor with one monitor.
I am having fits getting YDL
to use *both* monitors. OS X (10.3.9) does just fine.
Before anyone asks, I'm using the older versions of YDL and OS X due
to some out-of-date compilers
that either are not supported anymore or just plain don't work under
new versions of either OS.
Anyway, the connections are:
Radeon ADC output -> monitor #1 DVI input
Radeon DVI output -> DVI/VGA adaptor -> monitor #2 VGA input
PS3 HDMI -> HDMI/DVI adaptor -> monitor #2 DVI input
Monitor #1 works just fine in 1680x1050 with thousands of colors, X
won't start in millions
The only working display I've gotten on the second monitor is during
boot, with some text
on a white background from the boot. Once I try to start X, the
monitor reports no signal
detected and goes black. Identical behavior between ydl4.0.91 and ydl
4.1. I'm going to
try installing ydl5 on it when I get a chance to see if it does
anything better.
Does anyone have any ideas for getting this to work (or even a "can't
be done")?
Rob
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