Bug 317

Summary:	aticonfig prevents X to restart
Product:	Fedora	Reporter:	Marc Rechté <marc3>
Component:	xorg-x11-drv-fglrx	Assignee:	Stewart Adam <s.adam>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kwizart
Priority:	P5
Version:	10
Hardware:	i386
OS:	GNU/Linux
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Description Marc Rechté 2009-01-11 18:59:23 CET

Hi,

This is with xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.561-6.8.12.fc10.i386.rpm.

This driver produces a big underscanning with my HD3200 coupled with a Samsung TV (flat panel),so I have to use aticonfig commands like:
aticonfig --set-dispattrib tmds2i,positionX:0
aticonfig --set-dispattrib tmds2i,positionY:0
aticonfig --set-dispattrib tmds2i,sizeX:1920
aticonfig --set-dispattrib tmds2i,sizeY:1080
to solve the issue.

The problem is that the next X restart will not produce any output, nor will I be able to switch to any console (the PC is however not hung).

The only solution I found is to put the following line in rc.local:

cp -f /etc/ati/amdpcsdb.default /etc/ati/amdpcsdb

Of course if I shut down my X session without rebooting, it does not work.

Thanks for your attention

Comment 1 Thorsten Leemhuis 2009-01-11 19:02:15 CET

(In reply to comment #0)
> This is with xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.561-6.8.12.fc10.i386.rpm.

minor detail: then next time file it as bug against xorg-x11-drv-fglrx ;-)

Comment 2 Stewart Adam 2009-01-12 00:24:11 CET

So X does start correctly, it's just the ATI driver won't remember your settings unless you copy /etc/ati/amdpcsdb.default to /etc/ati/amdpcsdb?

Comment 3 Marc Rechté 2009-01-12 09:10:59 CET

If I have to copy the defaults back to /etc/ati/amdpcsdb it is because X does not start correctly.

If I do not use aticonfig, X will start and stop as normal.

If I use aticonfig while the X session is open to solve the under scanning problem, it works OK, but then if I restart X, I have a black screen even in console mode.

The only way to get my display back (even after a reboot) is to reset the /etc/ati/amdpcsdb file to its default values.

Comment 4 Stewart Adam 2010-04-29 16:59:02 CEST

Do you still see the problem with the newer Catalyst drivers?

Comment 5 Marc Rechté 2010-04-30 07:44:03 CEST

Hello,
Since I moved to F11, It is working fine with the latest fglrx driver supplied on RPMfusion.

What is amazing is that nearly 6 month after the release of the current F13 it seems the ATI driver is still not available !

Better keep my machine running under F11...

Comment 6 Stewart Adam 2010-04-30 17:13:27 CEST

F13 isn't out quite yet, but the good news is that 10.4 is compatible with F12 so updates will be out soon.