On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I demand that Brice Goglin may or may not have written... > > > Darren Salt wrote: > >> 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. > > Actually, more like 1s off, 3s on, and for each pair of state changes, there > is a corresponding pair of > enable montype: 1 > enable montype: 3 > in the log.
Why is gxine calling the DPMS hooks for the monitors? Do other video players have the same problem? Alex > > >> 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. > > > Please try at least these intermediate snapshot. There are 6 of them > > available at http://snapshot.debian.net > > > Or better, do a git-bisect in the upstream git repository > > http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati.git to locate > > the exact commit breaking this. If you need help, please let me know. > > 9ab5d2ec7c583c74f364d7cfbb54bcd2cd8ae2f5 is first bad commit > commit 9ab5d2ec7c583c74f364d7cfbb54bcd2cd8ae2f5 > Author: Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED](none)> > Date: Mon Feb 11 15:26:51 2008 -0500 > > RADEON: always restore crtc1 before crtc0 when using both crtcs > > In some rare cases restoring crtc0 first will result in a blank screen > on crtc1. If you are having issues with a blank screen on crtc1 > that used to work on 6.6.3 or before, this should help. > > 6.8.0 with this reverted is fine. > > -- > | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon > | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army > | + Travel less. Share transport more. PRODUCE LESS CARBON DIOXIDE. > > You can't get to Heaven on roller skates. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
