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Date:      Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:56:01 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        joaoBR <joao@matik.com.br>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dual head, output initialization
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208311153450.53816@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <5040F43C.3050608@matik.com.br>
References:  <5040F43C.3050608@matik.com.br>

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On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, joaoBR wrote:

> I hope somebody know something about this
>
> I have a dual-head setup (2 connector/one card) on all computers here,
> different types of radeon cards
>
> all cards, often, do not initialize the second output
>
> this either with vga/dvi or dvi0/dvi1
>
> often, the second port gets activated with x startup, but sometimes
> needs several reboot before the second monitor get juice
>
> it is on 8 and 9-stable
>
> I noticed that on some fedora16 I have it never happens, always both
> outputs are coming up soon system boot begins, either with graphic or
> text mode
>
> so my guess is I am missing somewhere something I do not know or it is a
> FreeBSD problem
>
> any opinion on this?

Does the xorg.conf specifically tie monitors to outputs in the Device 
section?

   Option      "Monitor-DVI-0" "Monitor0"
   Option      "Monitor-VGA-0" "Monitor1"



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