Bug 95298 - Can't "connect" to external display attached to docking station via DP on laptop with Intel/AMD dual
Summary: Can't "connect" to external display attached to docking station via DP on lap...
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: DRI
Classification: Unclassified
Component: DRM/Radeon (show other bugs)
Version: XOrg git
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
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Assignee: Default DRI bug account
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Reported: 2016-05-06 14:41 UTC by Yaroslav Halchenko
Modified: 2019-11-19 09:16 UTC (History)
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2016-05-06 14:41 UTC, Yaroslav Halchenko 		no flags Details
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Description Yaroslav Halchenko 2016-05-06 14:41:26 UTC 
Created attachment 123520 [details]
entire dmesg from the boot #1

I have HP zbook 14 and using Debian testing/unstable.  External monitor is connected to docking station serving two DP connections.  To make those visible to xrandr I do

xrandr --setprovideroffloadsink 1 0
xrandr --setprovideroutputsource 1 0

where 0 corresponds to Intel, 1 to Radeon/OLAND (name changed when upgraded).
Setup was working with stock debian packages (kernel was 4.4.2-3) for awhile but there was an issue that display didn't refresh correctly and often I had blank patches and had to go to gnome overview and back to re-render.  So I have decided to upgrade to a current state of testing + some unstable.  Currently have xserver-xorg-core 2:1.18.3-1  xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.7.0-1  and kernel 4.5.1-1 .  Unfortunately I can't "turn on" the external display connected to the docking station -- screen blinks and comes back to display on the laptop, xrandr reports xrandr: Configure crtc 4 failed   and agd5f on IRC looking at http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/dmesg-20160506-1.txt (attached to this report as well) summarized as "link training failed on the display"
Comment 1 Alex Deucher 2016-05-06 14:44:02 UTC 
Does appending radeon.runpm=0 on the kernel command line in grub help?
Comment 2 Alex Deucher 2016-05-06 14:44:36 UTC 
Did the monitor light up previously on a different kernel?  If so which one?  Can you bisect?
Comment 3 Yaroslav Halchenko 2016-05-06 15:11:45 UTC 
prev kernel: 4.4.2-3  -- yes it connected/light up no problem.  I had 1 more issue though (may be relevant).  When I come to work, and drop laptop into docking station, if then external monitor immediately lights up in 'clone' mode, I had to turn it off in xrandr/Displays, since otherwise whenever I run my stock "enable external monitor, disable laptop" xrandr line the whole display would go black without any signs of life from the laptop and I had to reboot.  I have forgot if/where I had report on that issue.  If I turned it off first in Gnome Display and then run xrandr to enable external in Primary mode -- it worked fine.

runpm: I will try whenever free time emerges (later today/or monday)

bisection: if only nothing left for poor me.  This is the main workhorse machine for me
Comment 4 Martin Peres 2019-11-19 09:16:32 UTC 
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