Bug#590493: xorg-radeon: server does not start, no video output, when no screen connected

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Yann Dirson <ydirson at free.fr> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 10:12:27PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Yann Dirson <ydirson at free.fr> wrote:
>> > Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
>> > Version: 1:6.13.1-2
>> > Severity: normal
>> >
>> > Turning on my box, I see the monitor claiming no video output.
>> > Checking video cable, I see it was not fully plugged and fixed that,
>> > but got no change.  Logging remotely I see (log below) that the server
>> > indeed failed to start because of this.  Restarting gdm fixed the
>> > problem.
>> >
>> > It is a very unfriendly behaviour indeed.  Google shows people with
>> > other video chips got a similar issue, so indeed the problem may not
>> > be specific to the radeon driver, please reassign as see fit.
>> >
>>
>> Unfortunately, if there is no monitor plugged in, the driver has no
>> way of know what's connected, so it has no idea what connectors to
>> light up.  That said, in xserver 1.9, the xserver will start with a
>> default 1024x768 framebuffer and no connected outputs, and if you are
>> using kms and a hotplug enabled driver, you will get an event when a
>> monitor finally gets plugged in.
>
> That's more like what I'd have expected.  Can be considered fixed-upstream ?
>

I suppose so, although only kms drivers will work properly in that scenario.

Alex