Bug 444126 - Rotation at high resolutions causes black screen with ati driver
Summary: Rotation at high resolutions causes black screen with ati driver
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-ati
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dave Airlie
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-04-25 08:51 UTC by Mark McClelland
Modified: 2009-07-14 17:28 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-07-14 17:28:56 UTC
Type: ---
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Xorg log from Radeon 9800 Pro (85.29 KB, text/plain)
2008-04-25 08:51 UTC, Mark McClelland
no flags Details

Description Mark McClelland 2008-04-25 08:51:21 UTC
Description of problem:
If I choose a high resolution (relative to the capabilities of the monitor) and
left or right rotation in the GNOME screen resolution app, the monitor goes into
power-saving mode and doesn't come back. Rotation at low resolutions such as
800x600 works.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F9 Preview Live CD

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In GNOME: System menu -> Preferences -> Hardware -> Screen Resolution
2. Set resolution to highest that monitor can support (2048x1536 in my case) 
3. Set Rotation to "Left"
4. Click Apply
  
Actual results:
Screen goes black and monitor goes into power-saving mode

Comment 1 Mark McClelland 2008-04-25 08:51:21 UTC
Created attachment 303761 [details]
Xorg log from Radeon 9800 Pro

Comment 2 Mark McClelland 2008-04-25 08:53:37 UTC
I forgot to mention that the same result happens on a different computer with a
Radeon 9600 Pro with the same monitor at 1920x1200.

Comment 3 Dave Airlie 2008-05-06 07:07:27 UTC
can you try enabling EXA?

Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" in xorg.conf device section?

Comment 4 Mark McClelland 2008-05-06 11:42:26 UTC
Tried it, same result. It happens at 1600x1200 too. Should the driver even be
attempting 90 degree rotation at resolutions where the horizontal resolution of
the mode exceeds the vertical resolution of the monitor? I would expect it (or
better yet, the RandR code) to return an error immediately.

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 10:08:28 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

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Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 17:28:56 UTC
Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
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