Bug#366150: Two options to enable external VGA output break ati driver when no output cable is present

[Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>]

Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati
Version: 1:6.5.8.0-1
Severity: normal

Hello,

This is my Device section:

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000]"
	Driver		"ati"
	BusID		"PCI:1:0:0"
#	Option		"MonitorLayout" "LVDS, CRT"
#	Option		"BIOSHotkeys" "on"
EndSection

earlier today I uncommented the two commented line to make sure to have
video output on the external VGA, and it worked.

Later on, however, I restarted X without video output and instead of
having gdm I'd have the screen circling between all read, all green, all
blue and so on.

Recommenting the two options made xorg start again.

Cheers,

Enrico

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-ati depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  xserver-xorg-core             1:1.0.2-7  X.Org X server -- core server

xserver-xorg-video-ati recommends no packages.

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