Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 139425
Regression: Radeon driver no longer detects second monitor successfully
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:54 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Using FC3 on an IBM R40 laptop with Radeon Mobility M6 graphics chip, with external monitor attached. The move from xorg 6.7 to 6.8 has broken the detection of the laptop panel as the primary display for Xinerama dual-head. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-6.8.1-12 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install FC2 and configure for dual-head 2.Upgrade to FC3 (OR just install Xorg 6.8 from CVS head) 3.Test dual-head (is broken) Actual Results: Desktop only gets drawn on the external monitor, and the laptop panel turns off. Expected Results: The desktop should span both the laptop panel and the external monitor. Additional info: This is an upstream bug specifically in the Xorg 6.8 server. It is not present in Xorg 6.7. If you copy back the ati_drv.o and radeon_drv.o files from 6.7 after installing 6.8 the problem goes away. I'm marking this as high as this is a regression and will be a showstopper for many people.
#138500 might be related
Please update to xorg-x11 from rawhide, and indicate if the problem is resolved in the new xorg or not. If the problem persists, please attach your X server log file and config file to the report as individual uncompressed file attachments.
Setting status to "NEEDINFO", awaiting testing of xorg-x11 from rawhide, and files requested in comment #2 above.
This bug has not been updated to provide us with the information we've requested above. If you have not already updated to the latest Fedora Core xorg-x11 and kernel updates, please do so now and if you still encounter the problem described above, please report the issue to X.Org bugzilla at http://bugs.freedestop.org in the "xorg" component. Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates. Setting status to "NOTABUG" due to lack of information.