not sure is it is mesa/ati/kernel issue but I have a two seat multiseat config with ATI5450HD in a pcie-2.0x16 slot and a ATI3650HD on pciex4 slot using the git versions of libdrm, mesa and xf86-video-ato. for some reason the screen connected to the ATI3650HD get black (like it looses connection or something) and I cannot get it back, I need to ssh into the comp and restart kdm. it isn't kde issue as it happens in E17. also, I'm pretty sure this doesn't happens on the ATI5450HD but I'll check. I've disabled DPMS for both in xorg.conf but it still happens. Reproducible: Always emerge --info mesa libdrm xf86-video-ati Portage 2.1.10.34 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.6.2, glibc-2.13-r4, 3.1.1-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.1.1-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-2600_CPU_@_3.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.2-r3, 3.2.2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.6-r3 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.3-r1, 4.6.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.39 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r4 Repositories: gentoo x11 kde vmware enlightenment Utopia_Platinia ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA dlj-1.1 skype-eula Broadcom PUEL googleearth LOKI-EULA AdobeFlash-10.1 RTCW-ETEULA ut2003" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -msse4.1" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/fax /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -msse4.1" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--keep-going --quiet-build=n" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.isoc.org.il/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en he es" MAKEOPTS="-j10" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--timeout=180" 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="/var/lib/layman/x11 /var/lib/layman/kde /var/lib/layman/vmware /var/lib/layman/enlightenment /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi aio alsa amd64 amr audiofile bash-completion berkdb bidi branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdparanoia cdr cjk cli consolekit cracklib crypt css cups curl cxx dbus declarative device-mapper dga dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread edb emboss encode exif faad fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran ftp gallium gdbm gdu gif gphoto2 gpm gtk iconv icq id3tag imagemagick java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde kipi lame lcms ldap libnotify lua lzma mad matroska mmx mng modules mono mp3 mp4 mpeg mtp mudflap multilib nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openexr opengl openmp oss pam pango pcre pdf perl phonon php plasma png policykit ppds pppd private-headers python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline samba scanner sdl session smp sndfile spell srt sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff truetype udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vdpau vorbis vpx wavpack wifi wma x264 xcb xcomposite xine xinerama xml xorg xosd xrandr xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel usb-audio" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="multi asym rate dmix dshare dsnoop softvol plug extplug ioplug hooks empty route file" 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 cgi cgid 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc efi-64" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en he es" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="hp" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa v4l radeon r600 vmware intel i915 virtualbox" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= media-libs/mesa-9999 was built with the following: USE="classic (consolekit) egl g3dvl gallium gbm gles1 gles2 llvm (multilib) nptl (policykit) shared-glapi vdpau xvmc -bindist -d3d -debug -openvg -osmesa -pax_kernel -pic (-selinux) -shared-dricore -wayland" VIDEO_CARDS="i915 intel r600 radeon -i965 -nouveau -r100 -r200 -r300 -vmware" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -msse4.1 -ffast-math" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -msse4.1 -ffast-math" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" x11-libs/libdrm-9999 was built with the following: USE="(consolekit) libkms (multilib) (policykit) -static-libs" VIDEO_CARDS="intel radeon vmware -nouveau" x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-9999 was built with the following: USE="(consolekit) (multilib) (policykit)" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,lazy" lsmod Module Size Used by it87 35668 0 hwmon_vid 3368 1 it87 coretemp 4902 0 snd_seq_oss 27450 0 snd_seq_midi_event 6268 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 50281 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 5824 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss 37752 0 snd_mixer_oss 14852 1 snd_pcm_oss xfs 444144 1 exportfs 3856 1 xfs radeon 994460 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi 22895 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek 300463 1 ttm 59860 1 radeon iTCO_wdt 12228 0 snd_hda_intel 23585 6 snd_hda_codec 86754 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 6091 1 snd_hda_codec snd_pcm 79613 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec snd_timer 20127 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm ehci_hcd 40339 0 snd 62911 24 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Does such problem exist with linux-3.2.12?
(In reply to comment #5) > Does such problem exist with linux-3.2.12? I cannot confirm that as I've lost one of my two seats. hopefully I'll get them back and will retry.
There's not really anything Gentoo developers can do to solve this. Please file a bug upstream https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=DRI if the problem persists.