Bug#742475: xserver-xorg-dev: X comes up with black screen lower 1/2 ignores xrandr until TV output shut off
Package: xserver-xorg-dev
Version: 2:1.15.0-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream
Bug#742472
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I installed a new install of Debian PPC on my iMacG5 and was trying
to get X working properly The session using the default desktop opened
very strangely with missing characters, distorted menus barely readable.
Tried Xfce desktop and that worked considerably better. Tried Lxde and
that opened with the bottom 1/2 of the desktop background in black.
Windows would open, but if you maximized them the lower portions would
not have text. If you dragged them with the mouse and made them larger,
then they were all OK. In no case did X configure the external monitor.
It would flash and report that it was being asked to do 12 hz refresh!
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
I tried to create an xorg.conf file. X -configure failed saying the number
of screens was incorrect. I found a single-monitor xorg.conf where the
TV output of the iMac was turned off, along with the external monitor
output. That worked properly for the single built-in monitor. I tried to
turn on the external monitor in xorg.conf, leaving the TV output off,
but that failed. Also, the iMac screen showed a darker area that looked
to be 1024x768, the highest mode of the TV output. I finally did
xrandr --output TV-1 --off followed by xrandr --output VGA-1
--mode 1280x1024 left-of DVI-D-1 .
* What was the outcome of this action?
That cleared most of the problems, but left the external monitor as the primary
monitor. I found that whatever monitor was told to be the left monitor
would become primary.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
I expected that having the TV output (TV-1) on but nothing plugged into the
connector would cause it to be ignored and that the external monitor would
auto-configure (I had tried --output VGA-1 --auto and it did not work).
I expected X -configure to make a proper xorg.conf file.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-powerpc64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xserver-xorg-dev depends on:
ii libpciaccess-dev 0.13.1-2
ii libpixman-1-dev 0.32.4-1
ii libxkbfile-dev 1:1.0.8-1
ii mesa-common-dev 9.2.2-1
ii x11proto-core-dev 7.0.23-1
ii x11proto-dri2-dev 2.8-2
ii x11proto-dri3-dev 1.0-1
ii x11proto-fonts-dev 2.1.2-1
ii x11proto-gl-dev 1.4.17-1
ii x11proto-input-dev 2.3-1
ii x11proto-kb-dev 1.0.6-2
ii x11proto-present-dev 1.0-1
ii x11proto-randr-dev 1.4.0-2
ii x11proto-render-dev 2:0.11.1-2
ii x11proto-resource-dev 1.2.0-3
ii x11proto-scrnsaver-dev 1.2.2-1
ii x11proto-video-dev 2.3.1-2
ii x11proto-xext-dev 7.3.0-1
ii x11proto-xf86bigfont-dev 1.2.0-3
ii x11proto-xf86dri-dev 2.1.1-2
ii x11proto-xinerama-dev 1.2.1-2
xserver-xorg-dev recommends no packages.
xserver-xorg-dev suggests no packages.
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