Bug 732119 - Monitor refuses to come back alive sometimes (switching to console, seems to help)
Summary: Monitor refuses to come back alive sometimes (switching to console, seems to ...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-ati
Version: 17
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jérôme Glisse
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: [cat:suspend]
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-08-19 20:59 UTC by James Antill
Modified: 2018-04-11 14:50 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-08-01 17:12:31 UTC
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mentioned patch from dri-devel list (1.52 KB, patch)
2011-09-08 13:48 UTC, Matěj Cepl
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Description James Antill 2011-08-19 20:59:52 UTC
Description of problem:

 Most of the time when leave my desktop I turn the monitor off, since my last reboot most of the time when I come back the monitor say "no source link". Testing this shows it will happen if I turn my monitor off for a couple of seconds, and then turn it back on.
 If I reboot, then the monitor comes back for the shutdown plymouth graphical screen.

 If I switch to a virtual console console, and then hit return just before I turn the monitor back on ... everything is fine but I see:

[57037.846923] [drm:radeon_dp_get_link_status] *ERROR* displayport link status failed

...on the screen. Switching back to Xorg works fine, at that point.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

I'm currently running:

kernel-2.6.40.3-0.fc15.x86_64

This is the version I was running before, and worked fine:

kernel-2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64

Comment 1 James Antill 2011-08-29 05:16:34 UTC
 Due to a power outage I moved back to kernel-2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64, and it works again.

Comment 2 Frank Danapfel 2011-09-08 07:23:48 UTC
I'm having the same problem since updating to kernel-2.6.40.3-0.fc15.x86_64. 

kernel-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64 shows this problem as well.

I didn't have this issue with kernel-2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64.

Comment 3 Frank Danapfel 2011-09-08 07:38:25 UTC
Looks like there is alraedy a patch for this issue available:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg01265.html
http://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg01266.html

Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2011-09-08 13:48:53 UTC
Created attachment 522126 [details]
mentioned patch from dri-devel list

Comment 5 Frank Danapfel 2011-10-12 15:13:20 UTC
I'm still having this problem with kernel 2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64 :-(

Comment 6 Frank Danapfel 2012-03-12 17:25:36 UTC
Since this issue was preventing me from updating the kernel on my FC15 system I now spend some time trying to figure out what is causing this.

The patch I mentioned earlier in comment #3 can be ignored, this doesn't work with current kernels anymore.

I'm running FC15 on a Lenovo ThinkCentre with a built-in ATI Radeon Mobility HD 3470, to which a HP LP1965 display is connected via DVI. 

When the display is physically turned off and turned back on later the display turns itself off again with the message "no signal". Logging in to the system via ssh while this happens I can see the message 

[drm:radeon_dp_get_link_status] *ERROR* displayport link status
failed

repeated over and over. Sometimes if I leave the system like this for a couple of hours (e.g. overnight) the message disappears and the display gets a signal again.

The last kernel where this worked without problems was kernel-2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64 with version 2.10 of the radeon kernel module. With all later versions of the radeon module I see this problem.

As far as I can see the relevant changes between version 2.10 and later versions of the radeon module which could have introduced this issue are the following:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/15/522 drm/radeon/kms: dont try to be smart in the hpd handler
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/11/296 https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/11/296

Currently I have switched to using the VGA port on the card but it would be great if somebody can find a solution for this issue so that the DVI output can be used again.

Comment 7 Wolfgang Rupprecht 2012-03-15 00:23:15 UTC
I'm seeing the same thing with the following versions of things.  My displaylink-connected Samsung S27A850D won't come out of power-save mode after I turn the monitor off and on.  The framebuffer is an AMD/ATI FirePro 2460 (quad displayport) .

kernel-3.2.9-1.fc16.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.14.3-4.20120201git36c190671.fc16.x86_64

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Cadar [FirePro 2460]

(Should I open a separate bugzilla for my bug because it is fc16 or is it ok here?)

Comment 8 Wolfgang Rupprecht 2012-03-16 23:48:21 UTC
Forcefully toggling the DPMS state from inside X11 with xset seems to unwedge the monitors.

    xset dpms force off
    sleep 1
    xset dpms force on

Is there any activity on this bug?  It is one that effectively has no workaround if one has only displayport monitors hooked to the computer.

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Comment 10 Wolfgang Rupprecht 2012-08-07 18:53:29 UTC
This happens under Fedora-17 as well as fedora-15.  This is an important bug to fix.  It shouldn't be swept under the rug simply because it was first noticed 2 versions ago.  What needs to be done to keep it open?

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