[regression][M6 LY] blue box instead of video output

[Rolf Leggewie]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati

This regression bug had the same workaround for me as bug 148408 so the root cause might be the same which would make this a dupe. Until that is clear, I believe it makes sense to have a separate bug report.

The latest version of xserver-xorg-video-ati in gutsy has a number of problems that were not present in the latest feisty version.

This one is about video output being a blue box instead of the moving images for mplayer, totem, xine and all players I tested. The sound played fine. Downgrading to feisty xserver-xorg-video-ati from feisty on an otherwise gutsy machine.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/feisty/i386/xserver-xorg-video-ati/1:6.6.3-2ubuntu6
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/i386/xserver-xorg-video-ati/1:6.7.195-1ubuntu2

[Bugs-freedesktop-org (bugs-freedesktop-org)]

situation changed but still not fixed with latest driver: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/187967/comments/1

[agd5f (agd5f)]

There is only one video overlay and it can only be used on one crtc at a time (either the internal panel or the external monitor). In dualhead mode the overlay will follow the video window. In clone mode you have to choose one head or the other using the XV_CRTC attribute.

crtc 1:
xvattr -a XV_CRTC -v 1

crtc 0:
xvattr -a XV_CRTC -v 0

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati

This regression bug had the same workaround for me as bug 148408 so the root cause might be the same which would make this a dupe. Until that is clear, I believe it makes sense to have a separate bug report.

The latest version of xserver-xorg-video-ati in gutsy has a number of problems that were not present in the latest feisty version.

This one is about video output being a blue box instead of the moving images for mplayer, totem, xine and all players I tested. The sound played fine. Downgrading to feisty xserver-xorg-video-ati from feisty on an otherwise gutsy machine.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/feisty/i386/xserver-xorg-video-ati/1:6.6.3-2ubuntu6
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/i386/xserver-xorg-video-ati/1:6.7.195-1ubuntu2

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I installed http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11689116/xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.7.197%2Bgit20080201.bcd59010-0ubuntu0tormod%7Egutsy_i386.deb for testing and the situation is at least "changed"

My internal display is 1024x768. This has never been a problem. I also have an external display (TFT with 1680x1050 native resolution), working fine as dual-head with the feisty driver. After installing above package and restarting X, I get a 1024x768 clone display. "System - Preference - Screen resolution" still does not show anything else, but I am told this applet is still a work in progress, some might even say outright broken (did work fine for me with the feisty driver!).

xine does display video fine now on the internal display but the problem remains on the external display (both are shown at the same time). Maybe this has to do with the external display not being driven at its native resolution.

[Bugs-freedesktop-org (bugs-freedesktop-org)]

This certainly is/was a bug. In the gutsy version of the radeon driver, there was *no* video playback possible at all. Thus a regression from feisty.

If the blue box on the second monitor of a clone setup is to be expected, then that only means this regression has been fixed in the latest packages from tormod.

Changing resolution from NOTABUG to FIXED.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I have been informed that a blue box on the second head of a clone setup is to be expected. Thus, the regression has been fixed in tormod's package.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Yep, and 6.8.0 is in Hardy already. Closing as fixed.