Bug 37000

Summary:	Exceeding render target size in xorg.conf breaks everything
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Tomi Pieviläinen <tomi.pievilainen+freedesktop>
Component:	Driver/nouveau	Assignee:	Nouveau Project <nouveau>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	hramrach
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Tomi Pieviläinen 2011-05-09 03:09:56 UTC

If settings in xorg.conf exceed the maximum render target size (4096x4096 here), the system ends up in a state where X can only be activated again after a reboot. Would be better to notice this and just bailout with an error message.

When trying to exceed the size with xrandr (for example when rotating a monitor), another monitor is disabled. Rotating back won't re-enable the blank monitor, but rebooting X will help.

Comment 1 Ilia Mirkin 2013-08-19 16:40:54 UTC

It appears that this bug report has laid dormant for quite a while. Sorry we haven't gotten to it. Since we fix bugs all the time, chances are pretty good that your issue has been fixed with the latest software. Please give it a shot. (Linux kernel 3.10.7, xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.9, mesa 9.1.6, or their git versions.) If upgrading to the latest isn't an option for you, your distro's bugzilla is probably the right destination for your bug report.

In an effort to clean up our bug list, we're pre-emptively closing all bugs that haven't seen updates since 2011. If the original issue remains, please make sure to provide fresh info, see http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs/ for what we need to see, and re-open this one.

Thanks,

The Nouveau Team

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