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[Bug 1410238] Re: Rotating external display with optimus results in corruption

 

Hello Maarten, or anyone else affected,

Accepted xserver-xorg-video-intel into trusty-proposed. The package will
build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source
/xserver-xorg-video-intel/2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1.4 in a few hours, and then
in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu Utopic)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

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Title:
  Rotating external display with optimus results in corruption

Status in xserver-xorg-video-intel package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in xserver-xorg-video-intel source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in xserver-xorg-video-intel source package in Utopic:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact] 
   * Black screen when attempting to rotating external display in affected configurations.

  [Test Case]
   * Run a system with a internal nvidia card, and 2 displays on the intel card. (Usually LCD screen + external VGA/DVI screen.)
   * Run xrandr --output <external> --rotate left
   * Expect a normal, rotated screen.
   * Bad behavior is a black screen.

  [Regression Potential] 
   * Low, only affects the transformed case in optimus mode, but it will be tested against !optimus config too.

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