Bug#366150: Two options to enable external VGA output brea..

Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati
Version: 1:6.5.8.0-1
Severity: normal

Hello,

This is my Device section:

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000]"
Driver "ati"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
# Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS, CRT"
# Option "BIOSHotkeys" "on"
EndSection

earlier today I uncommented the two commented line to make sure to have
video output on the external VGA, and it worked.

Later on, however, I restarted X without video output and instead of
having gdm I'd have the screen circling between all read, all green, all
blue and so on.

Recommenting the two options made xorg start again.

Cheers,

Enrico

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-

Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-ati depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii xserver-xorg-core 1:1.0.2-7 X.Org X server -- core server

xserver-xorg-video-ati recommends no packages.

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On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 18:51 +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati
> Version: 1:6.5.8.0-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Hello,
>
> This is my Device section:
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000]"
> Driver "ati"
> BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
> # Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS, CRT"
> # Option "BIOSHotkeys" "on"
> EndSection
>
> earlier today I uncommented the two commented line to make sure to have
> video output on the external VGA, and it worked.
>
> Later on, however, I restarted X without video output and instead of
> having gdm I'd have the screen circling between all read, all green, all
> blue and so on.
>
> Recommenting the two options made xorg start again.

Does leaving BIOSHotkeys commented out make a difference? If not, please
provide full log files for the relevant cases.


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