Bug#467105: ATI driver: use of Xv causes one monitor to be repeatedly blanked
Darren Salt wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati
> Version: 1:6.8.0-1
> Severity: important
>
> 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. 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.
Brice
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