Bug 861960 - Disabling primary display when secondary is enabled blanks both of them
Summary: Disabling primary display when secondary is enabled blanks both of them
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
Version: 18
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ben Skeggs
QA Contact: Michal Domonkos
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Whiteboard: RejectedBlocker
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-10-01 12:46 UTC by Martin
Modified: 2014-09-15 00:03 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-01-02 15:58:55 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Martin 2012-10-01 12:46:50 UTC
Description of problem:
Disabling primary display when secondary is enabled blanks both of them.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.1-6.fc18.x86_64
kernel-3.6.0-0.rc7.git0.1.fc18.x86_64
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G98 [Quadro NVS 450] (rev a1)

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot machine.
2. Connect secondary monitor.
3. Enable secondary monitor and expand workspace to it.
4. Disable primary monitor.

Comment 1 Tim Flink 2012-11-30 20:52:14 UTC
I don't see how this violates any of the F18 release criteria. If I'm misunderstanding something, please list the F18 release criterion (alpha, beta or final; links at the bottom of this comment) which this bug violates or at least a justification of why this bug should block the release of F18.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Alpha_Release_Criteria
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Beta_Release_Criteria
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Final_Release_Criteria

-1 blocker unless I'm misunderstanding something here

Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2012-12-01 08:31:51 UTC
ditto tflink, -1.

Comment 3 Jaroslav Reznik 2012-12-03 10:53:09 UTC
-1 blocker, related to dual head setup and seems to be specific to user's HW.

Comment 4 Kevin Fenzi 2012-12-04 23:47:06 UTC
-1 blocker.

Comment 5 Robyn Bergeron 2012-12-05 06:02:15 UTC
-1 blocker

Comment 6 Tim Flink 2012-12-05 15:25:15 UTC
I count -5 blocker votes here, moving to rejected

Comment 7 Martin 2013-06-11 16:49:58 UTC
Michal, are you able to reproduce it on latest Fedora 18 or 19 using Quadro NVS 450?

Comment 8 Michal Domonkos 2013-06-24 16:52:08 UTC
I couldn't reproduce this issue.  I booted up, connected a secondary monitor (at this point the desktop extended itself automatically), went to Settings->Displays, disabled the first monitor and ended up with only the secondary monitor powered on, as expected.  So the bug is fixed (unless I did something in a different way).

Versions:
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.7-1.fc19.x86_64
kernel-3.9.6-301.fc19.x86_64

Comment 9 Martin 2013-06-27 09:48:26 UTC
Could you test this also in KDE?

Comment 11 Michal Domonkos 2013-08-21 10:35:29 UTC
Just tested in KDE with the latest packages:

kde-workspace-4.10.5-3.fc19.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.9-1.fc19.x86_64
kernel-3.10.7-200.fc19.x86_64

And there was no such issue when following the steps in Description.

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Comment 13 Martin 2014-01-02 15:58:55 UTC
Seems to be fixed in F19 according to comment #11.


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