01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] needs to boot with nomodeset, or the display is skewed and distorted. It looks like the stride of each line is incorrect, resulting in almost diagonal stripes across the display. With nomodeset, the display is almost correct. I have two heads, and the problems are: - No matter what xrandr options I try, it will only function in mirrored mode. (FWIW, I see this problem on R580 too). - The output of the 2nd head is 'shifted' to the left leaving a 2 inch black stripe on the right edge of the screen. All this is in rawhide, but you may also want to know that the mirror-mode-only bug also appeared in F10-updates very recently.
Created attachment 339153 [details] X log (with nomodeset)
Dave, Does the KMS display look like the screenshot in bug 495297 ? Could you also boot with drm.debug=1 and dump dmesg (if possible, +Xorg.0.log) via ssh ? Regarding the mirror-mode only, you may need to add a Virtual line in your xorg.conf to match your total resolution, for instance : Section "Screen" (...) SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Virtual 3520 1200 EndSubSection EndSection Please add the xrandr output as attachement as well. Could you try again with more recent kernel/xorg-x11-drv-ati packages as well ? Thanks in advance, --- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
here's the situation with the latest packages.. (various jpegs at with modesetting enabled, I get strange looking output during boot. (left head: dsc02051.jpg right head: dsc02052.jpg) once gdm starts, I can make out the display, though it doesn't look right. (left: dsc02053.jpg & dsc02054.jpg) It comes up in cloned mode still. If I use the display config tool to turn off mirroring, I end up with the display looking like dsc02055.jpg and dsc02056.jpg with nomodeset.. Everything looks fine. I can even disable mirroring, and get two independent heads. Though for some reason, it will only let me choose a resolution up to 1280x1024 Trying to set it to 1680x1050 gives me a popup saying "required virtual size does not fit available size: requested=3360,1050, minimum=(320,200), maximum=(2560,1200)
oops, forgot the url for the pics... http://davej.fedorapeople.org/495273/
I see this with kernels 2.6.29.x from updates-testing on rv380 Radeon X600 PCIE. Earlier kernels are fine.
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