Bug#457612: After the upgrade from xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.7.196-1 to: 1:6.7.197-1 the X server fails to start

[Alex Deucher]

On Dec 23, 2007 4:45 PM, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 23:15:08 +0200, Gal Gur-Arie wrote:
>
> > Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati
> > Version: 1:6.7.196-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> >
> > After the upgrade from xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.7.196-1 to: 1:6.7.197-1 the X server fails to start.
> > I've returned back to: 1:6.7.196-1 which is working.
> >
> >
> > before xf86InitialConfiguration
> > (II) RADEON(0): I2C device "VGA_DDC:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
> > (II) RADEON(0): I2C device "VGA_DDC:ddc2" removed.
> > (II) RADEON(0): I2C device "VGA_DDC:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
> > (II) RADEON(0): I2C device "VGA_DDC:ddc2" removed.
> > (II) RADEON(0): I2C device "VGA_DDC:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
> > (II) RADEON(0): I2C device "VGA_DDC:ddc2" removed.
> > (II) RADEON(0): DDC Type: 3, Detected Monitor Type: 0
> > (WW) RADEON(0): DDC2/I2C is not properly initialized
> > (II) RADEON(0): DDC Type: 3, Detected Monitor Type: 0
> > proc lid closed
> > (II) RADEON(0): Detected Monitor Type: 0
> > (II) RADEON(0): Output VGA-0 disconnected
> > (II) RADEON(0): Output LVDS disconnected
> > (II) RADEON(0): Output S-video disconnected
> > (EE) RADEON(0): No valid modes.
>
> Hi,
>
> it seems that the lid is closed so the lvds is disabled.  Can you diff
> the logs from the working and non-working cases?

If you are trying to start X with the lid closed and no external
monitors attached, it will not detect any connected outputs.
Generally when users start X with the lid closed, they want to use one
or more external monitors and we get complaints about the internal
panel being "on" when the lid is closed.  I'm not sure what the best
middle ground is.  Maybe an option to ignore lid events?

Alex