config timestamps not updated on hotplugging a output with hybrid graphics

[Maarten Lankhorst]

[Impact]
In Precise and Saucy, we support hybrid graphics, but this issue prevents users from hotplugging external screens (the ones connected to the Intel card if nvidia is driving the display). The timestamps on the main screen are never updated when a output is plugged in to the gpu screen.

This is also the bug for getting xorg-server 1.14.5 backported to saucy.

[Test Case]
Requires fix for #1224254 first.

Plug in a screen after gsd started. The screen should turn on and enter mirror mode or extended mode. Wrong behavior: Screen stays off.

Alternate testcase: check timestamps on xev, they should stay the same when plugging or unplugging, but update each time.

[Regression Potential]
Low, but not zero. We will also bump the micro release with the MRE, the ABI was been broken shortly after 1.14.4, but this was quickly discovered and fixed before 1.14.5rc1 was released. There's also a commit "xfree86: Find primary entity when bus types are nominally different" which I suspect could have broken driver loading in the optimus configuration, but we already have a different fix because I ran into the same bug after a similar fix before.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xorg-server - 2:1.14.4.901-0ubuntu2

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xorg-server (2:1.14.4.901-0ubuntu2) trusty; urgency=low

  * Re-apply security update again.
 -- Maarten Lankhorst <email address hidden> Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:25:04 +0100

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Hello Maarten, or anyone else affected,

Accepted xorg-server into saucy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/2:1.14.5-1ubuntu2~saucy1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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[Maarten Lankhorst (mlankhorst)]

Confirming that timestamps change correctly now.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xorg-server - 2:1.14.5-1ubuntu2~saucy1

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xorg-server (2:1.14.5-1ubuntu2~saucy1) saucy-proposed; urgency=low

  * Copy package back to saucy-proposed from trusty.
    - There's a MRE for xorg-server.
    - Fixes mesa >= 10 support on saucy.
    - Fix a timer bug in the sync code. (LP: #1238410)
  * Changes in packaging:
    - Fix gpu screen output hotplugging. (LP: #1259561)
    - Do not render invalid trapezoids. (LP: #1197921) (CVE-2013-6424)
    - Fix for CVE-2013-1056.
 -- Maarten Lankhorst <email address hidden> Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:27:58 +0100

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.