Bug#443151: xserver-xorg-video-ati: vt switching activates external VGA monitor [Radeon Xpress 200M]

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Marcus Better wrote:
> 1. When the system starts I have kdm on the laptop panel, and the VGA
> monitor is in powersave mode.
>
> 2. I switch to a virtual console (vesafb). The laptop now shows
> garbage in the form of some jumping horizontal coloured lines which
> move and flicker a lot. The VGA monitor is now activated and shows the
> console.
>   

Does it help if you drop vesafb completely? radeonfb might break things
for sure, I am not sure about vesafb.

> 3. Switching back to X restores the laptop display. Both the laptop
> and the VGA monitor now show the same X session (like in clone
> mode). (But the colours on the VGA monitor are fine, in contrast to
> what I had before, see bug #440174!)

Nice workaround :)
> ~$ xrandr
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 2304 x 1024
> VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> LVDS connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
>    1024x768       60.0*+
>    800x600        60.3
>    640x480        59.9
> S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
>   

Not nice :(

And there is no way to get VGA-0 back to work at this point? (apart from
unplugging/replugging it)

Brice