Description of problem: Serious problems encountered when trying to run multihead on a Radeon Mobility FireGL 9k on Fedora radeon test day. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_radeon_multihead Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.0-2.fc11.i586 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download image from Fedora radeon test day wiki page. 2. Connect a SAMSUNG 17'' LCD monitor (can't see the model, can check it though). 3. Boot the livecd. Actual results: Where to start ... My native laptop panel resolution is 1400x1050 and the LCD can do 1280x1024 max. First of all, the splash indeed appeared on both screens although on the laptop screen there was an ugly black spot on the right side. This situation is presented in attachment 1 [details]. The display on the laptop's panel should be centered to look much better. When Xorg starts the external monitor starts to display junk and the laptop's panel right zone which was black becomes full of one-two pixel sides vertical stripes. This is shown on photos 2 and 3. I have attached dmesg, Xorg log and xrandr --verbose output for this case. Now I run gnome-display-properties and try to change some things. Unfortunately, when I simply uncheck "Mirror screens" and press apply the screen switches into a "Commodore 64 interlaced PAL crapmode". To illustrate, see photo in attachment 4 [details]. So, this dead path leads me to a reboot. After reboot I proceed more carefully and discover, that the broken clone configuration can be fixed in the following way: 1. Switch off the external monitor 2. Switch on the external monitor 3. Enable "Mirror screens" again. After performing these steps the clone mode looks shiny as you can see on photos in attachments 5 and 6. When booting with the 'nomodeset' flag everything works fine. Expected results: Clone mode should appear no both screens. Additional info: The hardware is a Dell D600 with Smolt profile here: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_08866391-44c6-41ef-87c7-1e7398a9fd21
Created attachment 337908 [details] Photo 1 Splashscreen shifted to the right when booting.
Created attachment 337909 [details] Photo 2 Display garbled on external monitor after xorg boots.
Created attachment 337911 [details] Photo 3 Garbled laptop screen after xorg is booted.
Created attachment 337912 [details] xrandr --verbose output after xorg boots
Created attachment 337913 [details] xorg log after booting
Created attachment 337914 [details] dmesg after xorg boots
Created attachment 337915 [details] Photo 4 Interlaced Commodore 64 resolution after disabling clone.
Created attachment 337917 [details] Photo 5 After some voodoo clone mode works much better (external monitor view).
Created attachment 337918 [details] Photo 6 After some voodoo clone mode works ok (laptop screen view).
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Hi, The multihead mode works much better than before but there is still some weird stuff going on. For example, when the system is booting (which takes far too long btw) the backlight randomly flashes. This can be seen in the movie: http://mgrela.rootnode.net/fedora-12-radeon-test/backlight-flashes-during-bootup.mov I think that it's the lcd backlight flashing because when it's off you can barely see a dim blinking fedora sign in the center of the panel. After the system finally boots it displays the backgrounds ok on both screens, but there are graphical artifacts and text rendering is completely borked. See attached photos for examples. I've also attached my Xorg.log Best regards, Maciej Grela
Created attachment 367709 [details] Xorg.log after bootup
Created attachment 367710 [details] Rendering artefact in Firefox on external lcd
Created attachment 367711 [details] Rendering artefact in Firefox on laptop panel
Created attachment 367712 [details] Text rendering broken Text rendering seems to work OK in gdm. The effects seen also gets worse over time - immidiately after booting you can still see the letters. After a few minutes of using the machine you start to see less and less.
Created attachment 367713 [details] Text rendering broken on external lcd
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