Bug 25788 - Enabling HDMI output blanks the LCD on my laptop
Summary: Enabling HDMI output blanks the LCD on my laptop
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Driver/Radeon (show other bugs)
Version: git
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2009-12-24 04:58 UTC by Kami
Modified: 2016-02-25 02:01 UTC (History)
0 users

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Attachments
GLXINFO (5.50 KB, text/plain)
2009-12-24 04:58 UTC, Kami
no flags Details
xorg.conf file (3.15 KB, application/octet-stream)
2009-12-24 04:58 UTC, Kami
no flags Details
xorg logfile before HDMI cable is attached (70.01 KB, patch)
2009-12-24 04:59 UTC, Kami
no flags Details | Splinter Review
xorg logfile after HDMI cable is attached the removed (116.84 KB, application/octet-stream)
2009-12-24 05:00 UTC, Kami
no flags Details
xrandr output before HDMI cable is attached (480 bytes, application/octet-stream)
2009-12-24 05:01 UTC, Kami
no flags Details
xrandr output after HDMI cable is attached (584 bytes, application/octet-stream)
2009-12-24 05:02 UTC, Kami
no flags Details
xorg logfile, HDMI connected, radeonhd driver (288.90 KB, text/x-log)
2009-12-24 18:11 UTC, Kami
no flags Details

Description Kami 2009-12-24 04:58:11 UTC
Created attachment 32278 [details]
GLXINFO

Hello Xorg Gurus!

I have ASUS X71S laptop with VGA and HDMI output. I am using Ubuntu 9.10/32bit. The VGA output works well, but I have problem with HDMI output, The connected TV is Toshiba REGZA C3005.

The integrated ATI VGA is:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series

It is Mobility Radeon 3740 (M82)

I wanted to use radeon driver, so I installed xorg edgers PPA packages (all latest) and custom (Ubuntu build) kernel image:
Linux M 2.6.32-02063202-generic #02063202 SMP Sat Dec 19 11:00:49 UTC 2009 

Everything is okay (2D, 3D acc, video playback, VGA output) Except when I enable HDMI it blanks the LCD panel of laptop.

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Step by step reproduction:
1) Start machine with Ubuntu and Login (I have log: Xorg.0.log.before-hdmi-connected)
2) Connect HDMI
3) Run xrandr or enable the HDMI output from the applet
 - This blanks the display of Laptop and show a picture on TV (whitin few seconds). The resulution of hasktop on TV is very high (1920x1080) however the TV native resulotion is 1360x768.

There is no way to get back picture on laptop except:
1) Diconnect HDMI cable
2) Run xrandr (without parameters)
3) Switch to text console (for example 1) then back to X on 7.
4) The picture appear on Laptop's LCD

(Logfile from here: Xorg.0.log-after-hdmi connected)

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Another scenario: HDMI connected during boot
* No pic on LCD, the login screen appears (in 1920x1080) on TV
* After login no pic on TV and no pic on LCD but I hear the sounds of system, so it is still running (like I hear Skype login sound, etc.)
(I have no logfile for this situation)
Comment 1 Kami 2009-12-24 04:58:50 UTC
Created attachment 32279 [details]
xorg.conf file
Comment 2 Kami 2009-12-24 04:59:33 UTC
Created attachment 32280 [details] [review]
xorg logfile before HDMI cable is attached
Comment 3 Kami 2009-12-24 05:00:14 UTC
Created attachment 32281 [details]
xorg logfile after HDMI cable is attached the removed
Comment 4 Kami 2009-12-24 05:01:06 UTC
Created attachment 32282 [details]
xrandr output before HDMI cable is attached
Comment 5 Kami 2009-12-24 05:02:54 UTC
Created attachment 32283 [details]
xrandr output after HDMI cable is attached
Comment 6 Kami 2009-12-24 05:05:12 UTC
I alo tried xrandr --output LVDS --auto --output HDMI-0 --auto --right-of LVDS instead of xrandr but same thing happened.

Guys, Thank you for the great radeon driver, and thank you in advance for help.

KAMI
Comment 7 Kami 2009-12-24 18:10:27 UTC
I tried radeonhd driver and the HDMI output works better thank with radeon driver.

I can enable and disable HDMI output and the picture of Laptops LCD display still OK.

The only problem it is using too high resolution (1920x1080) that degrade the performance (with Compiz it is slow, without Compiz it is tear free, but somehow not so continous - CPU utilize around 40% for the two cores)

xrandr output for HDMI output (it has different name than in radeon driver)

DVI-D_1 connected 1920x1080+1440+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 708mm x 398mm
   1920x1080      50.0*+
   720x576        50.0  
   640x480        60.0  

Audio is not redirectable to the TV however it is possible to select "Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 Audio device [Radeon HD 34xx Series]" but no audio output in this case. Should I report it as a bug? I attach the logfile of radeonhd driver.
Comment 8 Kami 2009-12-24 18:11:36 UTC
Created attachment 32289 [details]
xorg logfile, HDMI connected, radeonhd driver
Comment 9 Alex Deucher 2010-10-19 19:09:56 UTC
Is this still an issue with kms or a newer version of the driver?
Comment 10 Christopher M. Penalver 2016-02-25 02:01:57 UTC
Kami, Ubuntu 9.10 reached EOL on April 30, 2011. For more on this, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases .

If this is reproducible in a supported release, it will help immensely if you filed a new report with Ubuntu by ensuring you have the package xdiagnose installed, and that you click the Yes button for attaching additional debugging information running the following from a terminal:
ubuntu-bug xorg

Also, please feel free to subscribe me to it.

For more on why this is helpful, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.


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