Bug 751626 - Blank screen when installing driver for ati card with two video cards
Summary: Blank screen when installing driver for ati card with two video cards
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-ati
Version: 14
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-11-06 13:39 UTC by DM
Modified: 2012-08-16 16:38 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-08-16 16:38:21 UTC
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Hardware profile (6.05 KB, text/plain)
2011-11-06 13:40 UTC, DM
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Description DM 2011-11-06 13:39:53 UTC
Description of problem:

Attached is the hardware profile. This Sony Vaio VPCSB16FG has two video cards. One on board an intel one and the other is AMD HD6470M.

Its a problem because the external monitor connection does not work with the intel card only the AMD HD6470M. There are many computers with this double configuration and it would be good to get them working. There is a speed stamina switch that is used to switch between them.

First sign of problem. DVD to install fedora 14 does not work unless you choose the basic video option.

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

I installed ati-driver-installer-11-9-x86.x86_64.run . After install using the standard install options and reboot the screen does not work. Only could get it to work after booting in text mode run level 3 and running the uninstall script.

On the internet people claim the dual video cards are causing this problem. 

How reproducible:

Easy to reproduce

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get this type of computer install driver and reboot.
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 DM 2011-11-06 13:40:53 UTC
Created attachment 531931 [details]
Hardware profile

Hardware profile

Comment 2 DM 2012-01-30 15:26:12 UTC
Hi It's been a few months but no activity yet on this bug. Hope some one can look into it soon. Please prompt xorg-x11-drv-ati to assign this bug. Thanks.

Comment 3 DM 2012-02-06 05:11:36 UTC
I have just upgraded to fedora 16 and the problem persists. 

After upgrading the screen when blank. The text mode recovery option worked. 

I installed xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.16.0-2.fc16.x86_64.rpm using the text mode. Then I put "intel" as the driver in Xorg.conf. This provided a work around to the problem. The main problem was the monitor did not work. Now that works. 

The old driver "vesa" is now removed from the configuration file. It half worked with fedora 14 but not at all with fedora 16. 

The appearance and themes have "disappeared" from the menus. Not sure why this is. Perhaps unrelated. I will investigate further.

Comment 4 Fedora End Of Life 2012-08-16 16:38:23 UTC
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