Bug 861106

Summary: X Test Day: Video breaks when secondary monitor is connected
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveauAssignee: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: airlied, ajax, awilliam, bskeggs, ddumas, jreznik, jskarvad, robatino, tflink
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Description Jaroslav Škarvada 2012-09-27 14:10:22 UTC
Description of problem:
When secondary monitor (Samsung SyncMaster 2243 through VGA cable) is connected to Dell Latitute D620 laptop, the video breaks - it starts showing artifacts / garbled output, and the desktop become unusable. The problem persist even after disconnection of the external monitor, X restart is needed. I encounter this problem during X Test Week (nouveau).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.1-6.fc18

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start gnome-shell
2. Connect external monitor
  
Actual results:
Video breaks.

Expected results:
Video works normally.

Additional info:
Quadro NVS 110M video card, smolt profile for the machine: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_c7d88856-a286-4c4d-a41f-22c5971e6105

Comment 1 Jaroslav Škarvada 2012-09-27 14:20:51 UTC
It works correctly if X is restarted with monitor connected

Comment 2 Jaroslav Škarvada 2012-09-27 14:23:51 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> It works correctly if X is restarted with monitor connected

yup, it doesn't. It seems to be OK on the first look, but the video break on firefox maximization.

Comment 3 Jaroslav Škarvada 2012-09-27 14:27:38 UTC
Created attachment 618118 [details]
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Comment 4 Jaroslav Škarvada 2012-09-27 14:29:29 UTC
Created attachment 618120 [details]
Xorg.log

Comment 5 Tim Flink 2012-11-30 20:43:03 UTC
Unless I'm missing something, I don't see how this qualifies as a blocker for F18. It sounds like the laptop's display functions correctly when used by itself but issues appear if a secondary monitor is connected.

If I'm missing something here, please list the F18 release criterion (alpha, beta or final) that this bug violates or at least a justification why this bug should block the release of F18.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Alpha_Release_Criteria
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Beta_Release_Criteria
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Final_Release_Criteria

-1 blocker

Comment 6 Adam Williamson 2012-12-01 08:31:35 UTC
agreed with tflink, single system bugs are rarely blockers, and *certainly* multi-head only single-system bugs aren't.

Comment 7 Jaroslav Reznik 2012-12-03 10:34:06 UTC
Agreed, it's definitely bug but related to custom combination of HW, system boots, desktop is usable on the primary head. And restarting X fixes the issue partially.

-1 blocker

Comment 8 Kevin Fenzi 2012-12-04 23:48:04 UTC
-1 blocker.

Comment 9 Robyn Bergeron 2012-12-05 06:03:16 UTC
-1 blocker, jreznik's comment is spot on.

Comment 10 Tim Flink 2012-12-05 15:18:42 UTC
I count -5 blocker. Moving to rejected

Comment 11 Martin 2013-06-11 16:12:17 UTC
Jaro, are you able to reproduce it on latest Fedora 18 or 19?

Comment 12 Jaroslav Škarvada 2013-06-21 09:26:40 UTC
I think the problem is related to the bug 924385. The effect is nearly the same, but triggered by connection of secondary monitor. It seems to be reproducible only in the gnome-shell. It works correctly in Xfce.

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