Bug 13068

Summary: Broken display after xrandr --left-of
Product: xorg Reporter: Andreas Pakulat <apaku>
Component: Driver/RadeonAssignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.3 (2007.09)   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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log for xrandr --left-of breaks 2nd head display none

Description Andreas Pakulat 2007-11-02 17:43:45 UTC 
When Xorg 7.3 is started with 1 head active or two heads in "clone" mode and one wants to put the second head to the left of the first head (or the first right-of the second) then the driver produces a broken display on the second head. I tested this with 6.7.195 and git with the last change from Sunday Oct 28th. As soon as the call is executed the second head looks like a slightly magnified copy of the first screen and when moving the mouse out of the first screen the pointer vanishes and thats it. It doesn' appear on the second head.

Pre-Defining the layout in the xorg.conf works fine though.

I'm attaching the Xorg.log in case it contains useful information.
Comment 1 Andreas Pakulat 2007-11-02 17:44:30 UTC 
Created attachment 12328 [details] [review]
log for xrandr --left-of breaks 2nd head display
Comment 2 Alex Deucher 2007-12-13 23:22:17 UTC 
does this still happen with the latest code from ati git master?
Comment 3 Andreas Pakulat 2007-12-24 03:44:48 UTC 
I didn't fetch from git this time, but used the latest debian unstable version. According to its upstream changelog.gz this is up to commit eb99c3c5c9a2249cb84920f0f225e525fc3a4144. 

The problem still exists with that version.
Comment 4 Alex Deucher 2008-12-03 00:40:58 UTC 
Is this still an issue with a newer driver (6.9.0 or newer)?
Comment 5 Andreas Pakulat 2008-12-03 02:44:51 UTC 
sorry for not following up earlier. Yes this works fine now with the 6.9.0 driver I have installed.
Comment 6 Andreas Pakulat 2008-12-03 02:47:31 UTC 
I don't really use the CRT anymore (got a TFT meanwhile) and even if I use it its not the laptop with the 1680x1050 resolution.

If you're not sure wether this is fixed or not, I could take that laptop to the screen during christmas (screen still resides in my parents house) and do a quick test. But if you're confident feel free to close as fixed.

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