Bug#416666: xserver-xorg-video-ati: restarting X breaks resolution on powerbook

Wed Apr 4 10:41:15 PDT 2007

On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 17:41 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 09:41 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > It's probably due to this (non-existing I presume) external display
> > being detected. There's a known bug where MergedFB can limit the
> > resolution of the primary display based on the limits of the secondary
> > one. 

That should be fixed in git and the next 6.7 RC BTW.

> > There's a new upstream release candidate (6.6.191 aka 6.7-rc1) in
> > experimental, could you try it ?
> 
> I haven't been able to build the experimental version of
> xserver-xorg-video-ati easily and it isn't built for powerpc, [...]

It is now AFAICT.

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