Bug 495147

Summary: Enabling AutoLogin in GDM breaks multihead/xrandr setup
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Hezekiah M. Carty <hez>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-intelAssignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 11CC: ajax, jmccann, mcepl, mclasen, rstrode, xgl-maint
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Xorg.0.org with blank external display none

Description Hezekiah M. Carty 2009-04-09 22:14:18 UTC
Description of problem:
After enabling autologin for GDM and rebooting, the external display connected to my laptop does not show anything.  The monitor is on (backlight is on, not in a standby state), but the display shows nothing but black.

From here, I am unable to enable the display using either xrandr from the command line or gnome-display-properties.  I can disable the external display, but enabling it again results in the same powered on but not displaying anything state as when Gnome first starts.  Gnome/X acts like the display is active (windows and the mouse can be moved on to it, the background image is stretched like it is when an external display is attached).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-2.26.0-7.fc11.x86_64
Using kernel-2.6.29.1-54.fc11.x86_64 with Intel video (GM965) and KMS enabled on a Thinkpad R61 laptop

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable an external monitor using xrandr or g-d-p
2. Use the attached custom.conf as /etc/gdm/custom.conf with the "AutoLogin=user_to_log_in" line changed appropriately
2. Reboot/restart GDM with the external monitor still attached
3. See the above problem
  
Actual results:
External display is not usable

Expected results:
A usable external display

Additional info:
This works under "normal" circumstances, when auto login is disabled.  GDM does seem to try to clone the display before performing the automatic login.  Perhaps this is part of the problem?

I am not sure if this should be reported as a GDM bug or an Intel/KMS/Xorg bug.

Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2009-04-10 01:53:52 UTC
Moving this to the X side for now.

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2009-04-10 17:03:49 UTC
Thanks for the bug report.  We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue.

Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below.

We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.

Thanks in advance.

Comment 3 Hezekiah M. Carty 2009-04-12 17:08:45 UTC
After one of the recent rawhide updates, this problem seems to have cleared up.  I have tried this a few times now on a few different external monitors without trouble.  GDM still puts the monitors in to clone mode briefly, which seems useless in this case and breaks the "flicker-free" startup.  Neither monitor loses power though, so the original bug report seems to be fixed now.

If I see the problem again I will report back.

Comment 4 Hezekiah M. Carty 2009-04-15 20:07:16 UTC
Created attachment 339738 [details]
Xorg.0.org with blank external display

I was not seeing the problem for a while, but I did when starting my laptop just now.  The attachment is the /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this session.

The laptop was started with the extra display connected and powered on.  The laptop was running on battery power, for what that is worth.  I don't think there has been any correlation with power state and this problem occurring though.

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 13:35:12 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 7 Matěj Cepl 2009-11-05 18:25:53 UTC
Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates in various components of the Xorg system, which may have resolved this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade their system to the latest version of their packages. For packages from updates-testing repository you can use command

yum upgrade --enablerepo='*-updates-testing'

Alternatively, you can also try to test whether this bug is reproducible with the upcoming Fedora 12 distribution by downloading LiveMedia of F12 Beta available at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ . By using that you get all the latest packages without need to install anything on your computer. For more information on using LiveMedia take a look at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD .

Please, if you experience this problem on the up-to-date system, let us now in the comment for this bug, or whether the upgraded system works for you.

If you won't be able to reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.

[This is a bulk message for all open Fedora Rawhide Xorg-related bugs. I'm adding myself to the CC list for each bug, so I'll see any comments you make after this and do my best to make sure every issue gets proper attention.]

Comment 8 Bug Zapper 2010-04-27 13:36:01 UTC
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Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 11:46:47 UTC
Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.