Bug 1393951 – No modeset on hotplug of a new monitor

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Bug 1393951 - No modeset on hotplug of a new monitor

Summary:	No modeset on hotplug of a new monitor

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	mutter (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	7.3
Hardware:	x86_64 Linux

Priority	high Severity high
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Assigned To:	Rui Matos
QA Contact:	Desktop QE
Docs Contact:	Mark Flitter

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Keywords:	OtherQA, Regression

Duplicates:	1366169 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:	1420851 1422276 1438583 1475481 1479818
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Reported:	2016-11-10 12:07 EST by Alex Deucher
Modified:	2017-09-19 15:38 EDT (History)
CC List:	11 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:
Doc Type:	Known Issue
Doc Text:	Automatic modesetting fails when attaching monitors with some AMD hardware With some configurations, adding an additional monitor to a system using AMD hardware can fail to activate the new hardware automatically. The problem is currently under investigation. To workaround the issue, system administrators should manually call xrandr(1) to enable the monitor.
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Last Closed:	2017-09-19 15:38:34 EDT
Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	---
RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Attachments	(Terms of Use)
RHEL7.2 sos report (6.76 MB, application/x-xz) 2016-11-17 10:36 EST, Alex Deucher	no flags	Details
RHEL 7.3 sos report (10.47 MB, application/x-xz) 2016-11-17 10:39 EST, Alex Deucher	no flags	Details
scratch build (2.06 MB, application/x-rpm) 2017-06-15 12:19 EDT, Rui Matos	no flags	Details
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External Trackers
Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Knowledge Base (Article)	2621111	None	None	None	2017-08-14 12:43 EDT

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Description Alex Deucher 2016-11-10 12:07:55 EST

Description of problem:
Upon hotplug of a new monitor, the ddx does not get a modeset request to light up the new display.  Manually running xrandr is required to light it up.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Hotplug a new display

Actual results:
Nothing happens

Expected results:
The new display will light up.

Additional info:
This came up during QA for our amdgpu-pro driver.  We are not seeing a modeset request.  I think gnome-settings-daemon or the xserver may be dropping the randr event.  The monitor shows up as connected in the xrandr output and can be enabled by running xrandr to manually light it up.  We did not see this issue with older versions of RHEL.

Comment 2 Joseph Kachuck 2016-11-16 15:34:30 EST

Hello,
From the call this worked correctly on a previous release of RHEL? Please confirm the most recent release of RHEL this worked correctly.

Please attach a sosreport from a system directly after seeing this issue?

Thank You
Joe Kachuck

Comment 3 Alex Deucher 2016-11-17 10:26:49 EST

I just confirmed this is a regression from RHEL 7.2.

Comment 4 Alex Deucher 2016-11-17 10:36 EST

Created attachment 1221595 [details]
RHEL7.2 sos report

Comment 5 Alex Deucher 2016-11-17 10:39 EST

Created attachment 1221596 [details]
RHEL 7.3 sos report

Comment 10 Florian Müllner 2017-01-19 11:47:30 EST

I wasn't aware of the issue until today, so no.

Comment 16 Rui Matos 2017-06-15 12:19 EDT

Created attachment 1288113 [details]
scratch build

Alex, would it be possible for you to test this scratch build? It's for rhel 7.4 so you need to install the beta plus this rpm.

Comment 18 Joseph Kachuck 2017-07-26 15:05:44 EDT

Hello,
This will not be able to make RHEL 7.4. This is now requested for RHEL 7.5.

Thank You
Joe Kachuck

Comment 19 Ray Strode [halfline] 2017-08-14 12:43:01 EDT

*** Bug 1366169 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 20 Florian Müllner 2017-08-16 18:48:38 EDT

Waiting on test feedback from customer, so clearing need-info flag.

Comment 21 Joseph Kachuck 2017-09-13 11:32:35 EDT

Hello Alex,
Please confirm if you are still seeing this issue on RHEL 7.4?

Thank You
Joe Kachuck

Comment 23 Matthias Clasen 2017-09-19 10:33:58 EDT

(In reply to Joseph Kachuck from comment #21)
> Hello Alex,
> Please confirm if you are still seeing this issue on RHEL 7.4?
> 
> Thank You
> Joe Kachuck

Note that there is a test build in comment 16

Comment 24 Alex Deucher 2017-09-19 12:27:21 EDT

I can confirm hotplug is working properly on 7.3.  Haven't had a chance to test 7.4 yet.

Comment 25 Joseph Kachuck 2017-09-19 15:38:34 EDT

Hello,
From the last update. I am closing this BZ as current release. Please reopen if required.

Thank You
Joe Kachuck

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