Re: Welcome and a question: anyone using a digital LCD?

[Flavio Stanchina <flavio at stanchina dot net>]

Emiliano wrote:
> Flavio Stanchina wrote:
> > I finally managed to borrow my brother's 9600 XT card and I'm now 
> > happily running on the DVI port. So it appears that the fglrx driver 
> > does not support the DVI port on my older 8500 LE.
> I know that there are two different type of DVI port: one digital-only 
> and another one that can be used with an adaptor to connect a vga cable
> for a crt monitor.

This is an interesting point: indeed, the 9600's connector is DVI-I (the 
'I' stands for "integrated", I believe -- anyway, it means both digital 
and analog) while the 8500LE's is DVI-D -- digital only -- and it was 
advertised as such.

However, there's no doubt my LCD panel's DVI input is digital as it was 
working correctly with the 8500LE under Windows.

With the 9600 I see this in XFree86.0.log:
(II) fglrx(0): Primary head:
 Monitor   -- TMDS
 Connector -- DVI-I
 DAC Type  -- TVDAC/ExtDAC
 TMDS Type -- Internal
 DDC Type  -- DVI_DDC
(II) fglrx(0): Secondary head:
 Monitor   -- NONE
 Connector -- VGA
 DAC Type  -- Primary
 TMDS Type -- NONE
 DDC Type  -- VGA_DDC

With the 8500LE, the primary head would say "Connector -- NONE" no 
matter what. I can assure you the DVI connector was soldered to the 
board as expected ;) so I guess the driver is misbehaving.

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Ciao, Flavio