Bug#488277: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: No longer uses correct resolution when a second screen is connected

[Brice Goglin]

Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> Version: 1:6.8.192-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Up until the last few days, when I started my laptop (1400x1050) with an 
> external screen (LCD 1280x1024), X would automatically lower the resolution so 
> that it was appropriate for the external screen, instead of the 1400x1050 it 
> normally uses on my laptop (IBM T24 with ATI Radeon Mobility 9600). It doesn't
> do that any more.
>
> Now I get a cropped 1400x1050 on the external LCD instead. E.g. I can only see 
> the upper half of the KDE panel on the external screen. The lowest part of the 
> desktop is not shown.
>
> When I try to lower the resolution to 1280x1024 using kcontrol, the external 
> screen becomes black and a 1280x1024 image is shown only on the laptop screen.
>
> Best regards,
> Torquil Sørensen
>   

What did you upgrade when the behavior changed? ati 6.8.191 to .192 ?
6.8.0 to .192 ? Did you change xserver-xorg-core?

Can you send the output of xrandr when both monitors are plugged?

Also please try ati 6.9.0 (it has been uploaded to unstable today).

Brice