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

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 18:51 +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
> 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.

Does leaving BIOSHotkeys commented out make a difference? If not, please
provide full log files for the relevant cases.


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