Bug 261117 – x11-apps/xrandr-1.2.3 fails to change resolutions and turn off screens

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Carles Pagès 2009-03-03 22:36:00 UTC]

When plugging an external monitor to my laptop, I try to use it with:
$ xrandr --output vga --auto --output lvds --off
The external one only displays images after I reboot X, and the laptop's screen is never turned off. Moreover, I cannot change the resolution on any of them, and cannot turn the external monitor off. Xrandr gives no error and I don't see any messages in X's log.
I have an intel gm965 and am running xorg-server 1.5.3-r2.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




In case it is needed, here is my emerge --info:
Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.28-gentoo-r2 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r2-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T7500_@_2.20GHz-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:15:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r9, 2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.4.8
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.caliu.info/gentoo ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aac acl acpi alsa berkdb bluetooth bzip2 cddb cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups dbus doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode ffmpeg flac fortran gdbm gif gpm hal iconv imap ipv6 isdnlog jpeg latex lm_sensors midi mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python quicktime readline reflection session sndfile spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode vorbis wifi win32codecs wma x264 x86 xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Carles Pagès 2009-03-03 22:38:58 UTC]

I forgot to mention that I'm using xf86-video-intel-2.6.1

[Comment 2 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2009-03-05 18:54:36 UTC]

Reassigning to x11 herd.

[Comment 3 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-03-05 23:06:52 UTC]

Please make sure you're using the full stabilization list from bug #251832 to get the latest ~ Xorg packages.

Once you've fully updated, please try again and please attach your xorg.conf and your Xorg.0.log files here.

Thanks

[Comment 4 Carles Pagès 2009-03-06 18:29:49 UTC]

Created attachment 184158 [details]
xorg.conf

[Comment 5 Carles Pagès 2009-03-06 18:33:36 UTC]

Created attachment 184160 [details]
Xorg.0.log

[Comment 6 Carles Pagès 2009-03-06 18:42:55 UTC]

I was already using the list. However I updated the most recent packages such as the new intel driver 2.6.3 but I have the same behaviour.

[Comment 7 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-03-06 23:39:34 UTC]

I'm out of ideas to help you out. Please this document [1] on how to file bugs in FreeDesktop's bugzilla. X and Intel devs will probably be able to help you out.

If you do open a bug there, please paste the url here so we can track the bug.

Thanks

[1] http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html

[Comment 8 Carles Pagès 2009-03-07 08:24:52 UTC]

Thank you for the suggestion. Here is the link to the bug I filed:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20519

[Comment 9 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-05-06 15:59:47 UTC]

Let's track the bug upstream. Please do try to unmask xf86-video-intel 2.7.0 and then report in the upstream bug.

Thanks