Bug#467105: ATI driver: use of Xv causes one monitor to be repeatedly blanked

[Darren Salt]

Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati
Version: 1:6.8.0-1
Severity: important

One of my monitors (VGA-0) is repeatedly and regularly blanked and unblanked,
each change being approx. 1s apart when Xv is in use, e.g. by gxine. The
other monitor (DVI-0) is unaffected, and the position of the overlay does not
appear to make any difference, though it does need to be visible (tested by
shading and unshading the video window).

Reverting to 1:6.7.197-1 cured the problem. I have not checked intermediate
snapshot builds.

The graphics card is a Radeon X300. X is configured for two monitors,
arranged horizontally using xrandr (see attached files). Two log files are
attached, one for each referenced version of the driver.

Other relevant packages:
  xorg, xserver-xorg	1:7.3+10
  xserver-xorg-core	2:1.4.1~git20080131-1

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