Bug 91973 - Loosing external monitor output
Summary: Loosing external monitor output
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: DRI
Classification: Unclassified
Component: DRM/Intel (show other bugs)
Version: DRI git
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) All
: medium major
Assignee: Intel GFX Bugs mailing list
QA Contact: Intel GFX Bugs mailing list
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Reported: 2015-09-11 07:15 UTC by G.Legrain
Modified: 2017-07-24 22:45 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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dmesg before and after / modInfo output (599.76 KB, text/plain)
2015-09-11 07:15 UTC, G.Legrain
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Description G.Legrain 2015-09-11 07:15:35 UTC
Created attachment 118206 [details]
dmesg before and after / modInfo output

Hi !
I have video problems with my broadwell video output. With some external projectors (plugged through mini-displayport to VGA adaptor) I have issues with flickering and loosing external projector.

Steps to reproduce :
1/ Plug the external monitor
2/ Put some window on it
3/ Work between 5 and 1 minute
4/ Projector goes black, output seems to be lost
5/ Projector and laptop screen blink
6/ Sometimes projector never goes back, sometimes it reappears again for a while
7/ Repeat 4/

I tried with kernel 4.2 : same issue
I tried with sna rather than uxa : same issue
I tried enable_ips=0, enable_fbc=0, enable_rc6=1 : same issue

The odd thing is that it seems to depend on the connected projector.

Machine : Dell XPS 13 2015
Distribution : Arch linux
Connector : Dell mini-displayport to VGA adapter
CPU : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5300U CPU @ 2.30GHz
Kernel : 4.1.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Aug 17 08:52:28 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux
xf86-video-intel: 2.99.917.463.gd50d336-1  (from git)
or even with 2.99.917+381+g5772556-1 (from arch repository)
Comment 1 G.Legrain 2015-09-22 08:34:04 UTC
OK,
I am closing the bug as it was related to a hardware problem.

Just in case it can help other people: 
The problem was due to the mini-displayport adapter which had troubles with a particular projector...
I bought a startech MDPVGA2 adapter, and now everything is OK...


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