On Fre, 2012-09-07 at 21:45 +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon > Version: 1:6.14.4-5 > Severity: normal > > What I can easily reproduce: > > Running "xscreensaver-command -activate", and hitting Ctrl-Alt-F1 > while it is fading away leaves me on a dimmed tty1. Switching to > other text consoles does not change the dimming. Switching back to my > X session shows correct luminosity, and it I then go back to text > consoles they are OK as well. Not so important if it were not for the > original problem, which is not so easy to reproduce: > > (I was told) there was a Ctrl-alt-Fn console switch while xscreensaver > was fading out my X display. When I went back and switched back to my > own session, my display was dimmed, while other X displays were not > when I switched to them. When I switched to a text console, it was > dimmed when I switched from my dimmed X, and was not dimmed when I > switched from the other, non-dimmed, ones. > > A quick look at utils/fade.c in the xscrensaver source shows it is > possibly using xf86vidmode for the fading operation, so I went looking > for a tool to query the xf86vm settings, but found none. The closest > I found was xcalib, but I could not have anything queried with it > either. Eventually I guessed right with "xcalib -a -c" and everything > was back in good shape, but less stubborn ones would have rebooted > their machines like a windows box long before... > > The "leaking dim state" makes me guess the problem would be more in > the radeon side of things, rather than at the xf86vm level, but that's > a wild guess only...
Since you're using KMS, the gamma ramp leaking from X into console is probably a kernel issue. The other problem might be a core X server issue. In general, the drivers will just set the gamma ramp when/as the kernel / X server requests, not by themselves. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
