Description of problem: I have an ATI Radeon X300SE card (identified by lspci as an 'RV370 5B60') connected to two LCD panels, one by VGA and one by DVI. When I install the latest xorg-x11-drv-ati update, the radeon driver no longer lights up the VGA panel when it starts; instead the panel drops into power down sleep mode. This happens with both my usual xorg.conf and with no xorg.conf. When I run with my usual xorg.conf (which preconfigures the panels and uses EXA acceleration), the DVI panel also comes up with very slow graphics updates when doing things like scrolling text in xterm. Turning off the VGA panel in xrandr fixes this (and also relocates what the DVI panel is displaying). Using xrandr to turn off then VGA output and then turn it back on makes no difference. This worked with driver versions as recent as xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.7.196-2.fc8 and as old as the xorg-x11-drv-ati version on the install CD (which I had to fall back to because it is the only other version still available online). The output of 'xrandr -q' is identical between a working and a non-working configuration; I will attach it and the Xorg.0.log files for both cases to this bug report. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.7.197-1.fc8
Created attachment 295328 [details] xrandr -q output
Created attachment 295329 [details] Xorg.0.log-working The Xorg.0.log file from a working driver version (version 6.7.195-3.fc8, from the Fedora 8 base install).
Created attachment 295330 [details] Xorg.0.log-broken The Xorg.0.log from version 6.7.197-1.fc8, which doesn't work. This (and the last Xorg.0.log) were from sessions with no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
In a spirit of experimentation, I built a 6.8.0 + git fixes version of the driver and it did not have the problem with lighting the VGA LCD panel. It still did have the problems with really slow performance when EXA acceleration is enabled. (And other really slow performance when EXA is *not* enabled, which is common to all driver versions and the reason I want to use EXA.) Just from reading 'git log' of the xorg-x11-drv-ati repository, I suspect that panel issue is commit 8d64be6ebd7f50d4bcb587afeee8252c1367dc77, but I have not tried to extract just this patch and testing it on top of 6.7.197.
I believe I'm having this issue as well. R350 based chip and after doing a recent update (Fedora 8) only my DVI display is on although xrandr sees the VGA display just fine and seems to think it's working. When I exit X the VGA display comes back on again.
BTW Chris, do you have an SRPM of your "fixed" version? Would be interested in testing it on my machine.
I rebuild the 6.8.0 RPM's from rawhide for Fedora 8 and my VGA display once again works. http://www.bludgeon.org/~rayvd/rpms/xorg-x11-drv-ati/ Just had to remove the Requires and BuildRequires for the newer version of xorg.
Created attachment 295709 [details] Xorg Log from 6.7.197 (VGA head doesn't come on)
Created attachment 295710 [details] Xorg Log from 6.8.0 (VGA head comes on)
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