If DGA support is enabled in the Xserver options, when using ATI binary drivers, Fakenes detects DGA is available when starting, and selects it automatically, then monitor gets in a sort of stand-by mode and cannot be waken up. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install ATI propietary drivers 2. Enable DGA in Xserver config 3. Run Fakenes Actual Results: Monitor enters a sort of stand-by mode and I have to reboot blindly. If DGA is disabled in /etc/X11/XF86Config, Fakenes starts perfectly. I have DGA enabled to allow vmWare to switch to fullscreen. The fix is: "selecting a rendering option inside fakenes should be stored and used next time you start the program, and not using autodetection the next time you start Fakenes because chooses DGA and the problem arises" Expected Results: Fakenes should start fullscreen and the monitor not suspend. In fact, with DGA disabled in the Xserver, Fakenes selects another fullscreen rendering mode and everything works fine, but when you re-enable DGA in the Xserver the problem arises again gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.5 ati-drivers 3.2.8 xorg-x11 6.7.0 fakenes 0.3.0 * DGA enabled (fakenes fails switching fullscreen mode): SubSection "extmod" # Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension EndSubSection * DGA disabled (fakenes works) but vmWare fails to set fullscreen mode: SubSection "extmod" Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension EndSubSection max root # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.5-gentoo) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.9 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -msse -m3dnow -mmmx -mfpmath=sse,387 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -msse -m3dnow -mmmx -mfpmath=sse,387 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache prelink sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://212.219.247.15/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ http://gentoo.inode.at/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow S3TC X aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm autofs avi berkdb bonobo cddb cdr crypt cups dga directfb encode esd evo fam fbcon flash foomaticdb freetype gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib java javascript joystick jpeg lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mldonkeypango mmx mozilla mpeg music ncurses net nls nocardbus offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl plotutils png pnp python quicktime readline rogue ruby sdl slang spell sse ssl stencil-buffer svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype usb wmf x86 xatrix xface xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
How about 0.3.1?
... and latest X and drivers. Reopen after trying the latest please.
Sorry for the waiting, but to test it I waited to having to halt my computer, as fakenes with DGA enabled makes my monitor hibernate and I have to reboot my machine blindly, and lost anything that's opened in that moment. With fakenes 0.3.1, and ati-drivers 3.12.0, fakenes with a X.org server (6.7.0-r2) with DGA extensions activated suspends the monitor (as any other DGA enabled app, i.e. wine if I activate DGA in the config file), and without them can't switch to fullscreen. Just like before. Wine can go fullscreen without DGA; I think it's one of the things fakenes developers should fix: fullscreen without DGA, and not switching autoamtically to DGA at startup whenever DGA is available, although previously te user had selected another video driver. I can't try the X.org 6.8.0 release as the ATI drivers make it crash whenever I start an OpenGL app (or simply load Gnome). But dont think it'll make a difference, as the problem seems to be in the ATI drivers. I talked with the fakenes developers via IRC and they told me that behaviour of picking DGA without option of selecting another by default, is an allegro thing, and we couldn't solve it.
Still... sounds like the ati-drivers are having a little too much fun. Ccing the X team to get their take on it.
Transfering to x11 since the problem isn't with fakenes as far as I can tell but with the ati-drivers.
Can you reproduce this using X's supplied "radeon" driver?
Could you please test the latest drivers? (those work with the latest xorg-x11)
I sold the Radeon long ago to buy a GeforceFX. Sorry.
(In reply to comment #8) > I sold the Radeon long ago to buy a GeforceFX. Sorry. Closing then until someone can test this.
