On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 10:12:27PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Yann Dirson <ydir...@free.fr> wrote: > > Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon > > Version: 1:6.13.1-2 > > Severity: normal > > > > Turning on my box, I see the monitor claiming no video output. > > Checking video cable, I see it was not fully plugged and fixed that, > > but got no change. Logging remotely I see (log below) that the server > > indeed failed to start because of this. Restarting gdm fixed the > > problem. > > > > It is a very unfriendly behaviour indeed. Google shows people with > > other video chips got a similar issue, so indeed the problem may not > > be specific to the radeon driver, please reassign as see fit. > > > > Unfortunately, if there is no monitor plugged in, the driver has no > way of know what's connected, so it has no idea what connectors to > light up. That said, in xserver 1.9, the xserver will start with a > default 1024x768 framebuffer and no connected outputs, and if you are > using kms and a hotplug enabled driver, you will get an event when a > monitor finally gets plugged in.
That's more like what I'd have expected. Can be considered fixed-upstream ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100802060752.gb4...@home.lan
