https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28165
--- Comment #1 from peter@peter-server.homelinux.net 2010-05-19 07:42:51 PDT ---
But I could also pulg in the dvd player. I can see the bios messages and grub menu on both screens. I might even see (part of) usplash. Then the dvd player turns blue, like it is recieving no signal. The main monitor displays the login screen at a distorted 1024*768. When I login my monitor switches to 1440*900, but it shows an out-of-range error. The image looks a bit noisy, and the refresh rate looks low, like 25Hz. Especially mouse movement is not fluid.
That's with the dvd player connected, but still disabled. xrands shows http://pastebin.com/5vD3TLEu It is properly detected, so I can enable it. The out-of-range thing stops, and things work great on my main monitor. GNOME expands the desktop to the dvd-player, but there's still no signal. Blue, with nothing on it. xrandr now shows http://pastebin.com/tm5TPgFB
The funniest thing is it detects an "tv" when I connect the composite wire to the ground wire, (using a screwdriver). So it doesn't really detect anything... But that's a limitation of the composite signal.
I booted the system with drm.debug=14, and these are the results: without dvd player: http://pastebin.com/f4ftQBDN with dvd player: http://pastebin.com/AwzLGwcx I ran dmesg at the gdm login screen over ssh.
My setup looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfZvJ-WTTXg Ignore the laptop. I shot the video with fglrx in a good mood. That's very rare...