Activity log for bug #1636397

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2016-10-25 07:46:24 Timo Aaltonen bug added bug
2016-10-25 07:46:35 Timo Aaltonen nominated for series Ubuntu Yakkety
2016-10-25 07:46:35 Timo Aaltonen bug task added xorg-server (Ubuntu Yakkety)
2016-10-25 07:46:35 Timo Aaltonen nominated for series Ubuntu Xenial
2016-10-25 07:46:35 Timo Aaltonen bug task added xorg-server (Ubuntu Xenial)
2016-10-25 16:15:21 Timo Aaltonen description From a private bug: "Currently, NVIDIA and modesetting drivers are using same output names, that creates confusion for xrandr clients like gnome-setting-daemon or xrandr utility. When modesetting outputs act as slave for other x-screen (like NVIDIA X-screen here), modesetting driver uses different scheme of output names to avoid kind of confusion we are seeing here. There is a bug in moesetting X-driver gets shipped with X-server, which disables slave output's name scheme." From a reviewed upstream patch: "Commit c7e8d4a6ee9542f56cd241cf7a960fb8223a6b22 had already unifdef MODESETTING_OUTPUT_SLAVE_SUPPORT but commit 9257b1252da9092ddc676fec9aabe2b33dfad272 didn't notice that." so we need to backport that to zesty/yakkety/xenial. From a private bug: "Currently, NVIDIA and modesetting drivers are using same output names, that creates confusion for xrandr clients like gnome-setting-daemon or xrandr utility. When modesetting outputs act as slave for other x-screen (like NVIDIA X-screen here), modesetting driver uses different scheme of output names to avoid kind of confusion we are seeing here. There is a bug in modesetting X-driver gets shipped with X-server, which disables slave output's name scheme." From a reviewed upstream patch: "Commit c7e8d4a6ee9542f56cd241cf7a960fb8223a6b22 had already unifdef MODESETTING_OUTPUT_SLAVE_SUPPORT but commit 9257b1252da9092ddc676fec9aabe2b33dfad272 didn't notice that." so we need to backport that to zesty/yakkety/xenial.
2016-10-28 13:44:21 Launchpad Janitor xorg-server (Ubuntu): status New Fix Released
2016-11-01 03:03:04 Anthony Wong bug added subscriber Canonical Hardware Enablement Team
2016-11-01 03:03:09 Anthony Wong tags originate-from-1626412 somerville
2016-11-01 08:31:49 Timo Aaltonen description From a private bug: "Currently, NVIDIA and modesetting drivers are using same output names, that creates confusion for xrandr clients like gnome-setting-daemon or xrandr utility. When modesetting outputs act as slave for other x-screen (like NVIDIA X-screen here), modesetting driver uses different scheme of output names to avoid kind of confusion we are seeing here. There is a bug in modesetting X-driver gets shipped with X-server, which disables slave output's name scheme." From a reviewed upstream patch: "Commit c7e8d4a6ee9542f56cd241cf7a960fb8223a6b22 had already unifdef MODESETTING_OUTPUT_SLAVE_SUPPORT but commit 9257b1252da9092ddc676fec9aabe2b33dfad272 didn't notice that." so we need to backport that to zesty/yakkety/xenial. [Impact] Currently, NVIDIA and modesetting drivers are using same output names, that creates confusion for xrandr clients like gnome-setting-daemon or xrandr utility. When modesetting outputs act as slave for other x-screen (like NVIDIA X-screen here), modesetting driver uses different scheme of output names to avoid kind of confusion we are seeing here. There is a bug in modesetting X-driver gets shipped with X-server, which disables slave output's name scheme. From a reviewed upstream patch: "Commit c7e8d4a6ee9542f56cd241cf7a960fb8223a6b22 had already unifdef MODESETTING_OUTPUT_SLAVE_SUPPORT but commit 9257b1252da9092ddc676fec9aabe2b33dfad272 didn't notice that." so we need to backport that to zesty/yakkety/xenial. [Test Case] Enable dGPU, test that output to DP works. [Regression Potential] There should be none, as this leftover was a simple mistake that shouldn't be there.
2016-11-02 22:02:18 Chris Halse Rogers xorg-server (Ubuntu Xenial): status New Fix Committed
2016-11-02 22:02:22 Chris Halse Rogers bug added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2016-11-02 22:02:25 Chris Halse Rogers bug added subscriber SRU Verification
2016-11-02 22:02:31 Chris Halse Rogers tags originate-from-1626412 somerville originate-from-1626412 somerville verification-needed
2016-11-02 22:04:29 Chris Halse Rogers xorg-server (Ubuntu Yakkety): status New Fix Committed
2016-11-04 11:59:11 Kai-Heng Feng tags originate-from-1626412 somerville verification-needed originate-from-1626412 somerville verification-done
2016-11-18 08:43:52 Launchpad Janitor xorg-server (Ubuntu Xenial): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2016-11-18 08:44:00 Martin Pitt removed subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2016-11-18 08:46:55 Launchpad Janitor xorg-server (Ubuntu Yakkety): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2016-11-24 13:37:52 Timo Aaltonen hwe-next: status New Fix Released
2017-01-11 05:51:07 Chris Halse Rogers bug added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2017-01-11 05:51:14 Chris Halse Rogers tags originate-from-1626412 somerville verification-done originate-from-1626412 somerville
2017-01-11 05:51:16 Chris Halse Rogers tags originate-from-1626412 somerville originate-from-1626412 somerville verification-needed
2017-02-02 18:48:39 Brian Murray bug task added xorg-server-lts-xenial (Ubuntu)
2017-02-02 18:48:56 Brian Murray xorg-server-lts-xenial (Ubuntu): status New Invalid
2017-02-02 18:58:30 Brian Murray xorg-server-lts-xenial (Ubuntu Xenial): status New Invalid
2017-02-02 18:58:40 Brian Murray xorg-server-lts-xenial (Ubuntu Yakkety): status New Invalid
2017-02-02 18:58:50 Brian Murray nominated for series Ubuntu Trusty
2017-02-02 18:58:50 Brian Murray bug task added xorg-server (Ubuntu Trusty)
2017-02-02 18:58:50 Brian Murray bug task added xorg-server-lts-xenial (Ubuntu Trusty)
2017-02-02 18:59:02 Brian Murray xorg-server-lts-xenial (Ubuntu Trusty): status New Fix Committed
2017-02-02 18:59:09 Brian Murray xorg-server (Ubuntu Trusty): status New Invalid