Bug#786816: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Leaving X (suspend, switch to VT) scrambles the desktop colours

Wed May 27 21:13:08 PDT 2015

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 4:53 PM, rw <rw at shadowrobot.com> wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> Version: 1:7.5.0-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Using X on a Thinkpad T60, just upgraded to Debian 8. Previous versions worked fine for
> suspend/resume/switch to VT and back
>
> Now switching out of the desktop does something I can only describe as "change RGB for GBR or
> similar". Black/white remains perfectly legible, but colours are shifted into a different colour in
> such a way that the screen is mostly not legible
>

You appear to have disabled kms somehow and you are getting the vesa
driver rather than the native radeon driver.

Alex

> [    18.639] (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported.
> [    18.639] (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported.
> [    18.639] (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported.
> [    18.645] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting

> [    18.657] (II) VESA(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
> [    18.658] (II) VESA(0): VESA BIOS detected
> [    18.658] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Version 3.0
> [    18.658] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 16384 kB
> [    18.658] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM: ATI ATOMBIOS
> [    18.658] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 9.12
> [    18.658] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: (C) 1988-2005, ATI Technologies Inc.
> [    18.658] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: M56GL
> [    18.658] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: 01.00
> [    18.715] (II) VESA(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
>         "Default Screen" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
> [    18.715] (==) VESA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
> [    18.715] (==) VESA(0): RGB weight 888
> [    18.715] (==) VESA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
> [    18.715] (==) VESA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
> [    18.715] (II) Loading sub module "ddc"
> [    18.716] (II) LoadModule: "ddc"
> [    18.716] (II) Module "ddc" already built-in
> [    19.122] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC supported
> [    19.122] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC Level 2
> [    19.122] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC transfer in appr. 1 sec.
> [    19.371] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC read successfully
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): Manufacturer: LEN  Model: 4022  Serial#: 0
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): Year: 2006  Week: 36
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): EDID Version: 1.3
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): Digital Display Input
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): Max Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 29  vert.: 21
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): Gamma: 2.20
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend Off
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): Supported color encodings: RGB 4:4:4 YCrCb 4:4:4
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): First detailed timing is preferred mode
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): redX: 0.610 redY: 0.330   greenX: 0.300 greenY: 0.530
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): blueX: 0.150 blueY: 0.130   whiteX: 0.313 whiteY: 0.329
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): Supported established timings:
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): 640x480 at 60Hz
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): 800x600 at 60Hz
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): 1024x768 at 60Hz
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): Supported standard timings:
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): #0: hsize: 1280  vsize 1024  refresh: 60  vid: 32897
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): Supported detailed timing:
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): clock: 108.0 MHz   Image Size:  287 x 215 mm
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): h_active: 1400  h_sync: 1448  h_sync_end 1560 h_blank_end 1688 h_border: 0
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): v_active: 1050  v_sync: 1051  v_sync_end 1054 v_blanking: 1066 v_border: 0
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): Supported detailed timing:
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): clock: 90.0 MHz   Image Size:  287 x 215 mm
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): h_active: 1400  h_sync: 1448  h_sync_end 1560 h_blank_end 1688 h_border: 0
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): v_active: 1050  v_sync: 1051  v_sync_end 1054 v_blanking: 1066 v_border: 0
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): Unknown vendor-specific block f
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0):  LTD141EN9B
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): EDID (in hex):
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0):      00ffffffffffff0030ae224000000000
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0):      24100103801d1578ea6f959c544c8726
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0):      21505421080081800101010101010101
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0):      010101010101302a7820511a10403070
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0):      13001fd71000001825237820511a1040
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0):      307013001fd7100000180000000f0090
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0):      43329043280f010030649055000000fe
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0):      004c5444313431454e39420a2020003e
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): EDID vendor "LEN", prod id 16418
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): Modeline "1400x1050"x0.0  108.00  1400 1448 1560 1688  1050 1051 1054 1066 -hsync -vsync (64.0 kHz eP)
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): Modeline "1400x1050"x0.0   89.97  1400 1448 1560 1688  1050 1051 1054 1066 -hsync -vsync (53.3 kHz e)
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   40.00  800 840 968 1056  600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz e)
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   25.18  640 656 752 800  480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz e)
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   65.00  1024 1048 1184 1344  768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz e)
> [    19.372] (II) VESA(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0  108.00  1280 1328 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (64.0 kHz e)