Bug 211351 – >x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.40.4 works bad vith external monitor on MSI MEGA BOOK

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Petr Bahula 2008-02-25 09:49:39 UTC]

I have MSI notebook amd64 with ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 (on label on NB):
# lspci -s 01:05.0
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP]
# lspci -s 01:05.0 -vn
01:05.0 0300: 1002:5975 (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: 1462:a422
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 17
        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        I/O ports at 6800 [size=256]
        Memory at ff2f0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Expansion ROM at ff2c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

I use internal LCD 1280x800 and external LCD monitor ViewSonic VP201b (1600x1200 resolution).

With ati-drivers 8.40.4 is monitor completely autodetect and work:
(II) fglrx(0): Connected Display1: CRT on primary DAC [crt1]
(II) fglrx(0): Display1 EDID data ---------------------------
(II) fglrx(0): Manufacturer: VSC  Model: 6911  Serial#: 16843009
(II) fglrx(0): Year: 2003  Week: 17
(II) fglrx(0): EDID Version: 1.3

With newer ati-drivers (8.433*, 8.452*) is monitor not detected and start with 1024x768 resolution only. If I add modeline 1600x1200 into Xorg.conf the Xserver cash at start:
(II) fglrx(0): Connected Display1: CRT on primary DAC [crt1]
(II) fglrx(0): Display1 EDID data ---------------------------
(II) fglrx(0): Manufacturer: XXX  Model: 3  Serial#: 0
(II) fglrx(0): Year: 1990  Week: 0
(II) fglrx(0): EDID Version: 1.3
....
(II) fglrx(0): Primary Controller - LCD on internal LVDS
(II) fglrx(0): Secondary Controller - CRT on primary DAC
(II) fglrx(0): Internal Desktop Setting: 0x00000001
(II) fglrx(0): POWERplay version 3.  3 power states available:
(II) fglrx(0):   1. 401/401MHz @ 60Hz [enable load balancing]
(II) fglrx(0):   2. 100/133MHz @ 60Hz [low voltage, enable load balancing]
(II) fglrx(0):   3. 301/177MHz @ 60Hz [low voltage]

Backtrace:
0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x6d) [0x48510d]
1: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x2b1315f7a430]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting


I test compile ati-drivers with gcc-4.2.3 (bug #201100), but without any efect.

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2008-02-25 09:55:43 UTC]

Bugs about binary blobs go upstream since there's obviously nothing we could
fix. I.e., bug ATI/AMD.

[Comment 2 Petr Bahula 2008-02-25 09:58:15 UTC]

Created attachment 144562 [details]
Xorg.0.log from work ati-drivers-8.40.4

[Comment 3 Petr Bahula 2008-02-25 09:59:25 UTC]

Created attachment 144563 [details]
Xorg.0.log from crash ati-drivers-8.455.2

[Comment 4 Petr Bahula 2008-02-25 10:00:16 UTC]

Created attachment 144564 [details]
Xorg.0.log from low resolution ati-drivers-8.455.2

[Comment 5 Petr Bahula 2008-02-25 10:01:12 UTC]

Created attachment 144566 [details]
xorg.conf

[Comment 6 Jeffrey Gardner (RETIRED) 2008-06-23 08:30:31 UTC]

are you having any luck with the latest drivers?

[Comment 7 Petr Bahula 2008-06-23 15:08:53 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> are you having any luck with the latest drivers?
> 

Firs my test of last ati-drivers-8.501 is crash with external monitor. I will make any next tests and them send report to "Linux Crew Driver Feedback Program" at ati.com.

[Comment 8 Petr Bahula 2008-06-30 11:54:38 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > are you having any luck with the latest drivers?

Last ati-drivers-8.501 is working but with  Option  "NoDRI" "1"  only.
Without them I have the same problem as described in bug 229209.

[Comment 9 Petr Bahula 2008-06-30 12:01:19 UTC]

This bug is reporting the same problem as bug 228871. Read the bug 228871 for more information.