hibernate, external monitor, color problem

[Sergio Monteiro Basto]

On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 10:11 -0500, Tyler Smith wrote: 
> Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 12:22 -0500, Tyler Smith wrote: 
> >   
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have a problem with my external monitor. If I boot while connected, 
> >> the everything is fine. However, if I hibernate the laptop while not 
> >> connected to the external monitor, and then resume after connecting, 
> >> usually (I can't consistently reproduce the error, it happens more than 
> >> 50% of the time though) the external monitor color is distorted to be 
> >> almost illegible - very strong pinks and purples, I can barely make out 
> >> the windows on the screen and some text. I can only recover proper, 
> >> legible colors, by rebooting or by closing and restarting X. The same 
> >> problem occurs when connecting to an external monitor through a docking 
> >> station, directly to a lcd television, or directly to an overhead projector.
> >>
> >>
> >>     
> > Hi, you can delete xorg.conf , all confs are now autodetect ,
> >   
> Ok, I've reduced my xorg.conf to the following:
> 
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier  "Card0"
>     Driver      "radeonhd"
> EndSection
> 
> Otherwise, the autodetect gives me the radeon driver, which doesn't work 
> well. I've commented out everything else. I still have the problem with 
> 'pink screen' following resume from hibernate, corrected by restarting X 
> or rebooting, neither of which are convenient.
> 
> Any other suggestions?

And unplug and plug monitor ?  or try disable and enable monitor with
xrandr --output VGA1 --off ? 

Don't know more to help you , sorry ! 

> Thanks,
> 
> Tyler
> 


-- 
Sérgio M. B.
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