Radeon HD 7520g Blank Laptop Display

Question

Hey all,
I'm no expert on linux graphics (or graphics at all for that matter), so please be patient if I don't include everything necessary.
Here's my issue. I've got a laptop with an AMD Trinity APU, a6-4400m. The graphics "card" is a Radeon HD 7520g (as mentioned in the subject). The laptop itself has two outputs, a VGA and an HDMI. I use xrandr to run two monitors, the laptop display and the external. Here's where the fun begins.
When I run for instance,
xrandr --output LVDS --auto --output HDMI --auto
Everything works fine and my hdmi display is showing in all of its 720p majesty (my TV is cheap   ).
When I run
xrandr --output LVDS --auto --output VGA-0 --auto
My laptop display (LVDS) goes completely blank, and VGA-0 becomes the only active display. By blank I mean completely off. No backlight and no image (I shined a flashlight on it to verify there was no image). What's really weird is when I run xrandr -q, I see that both LVDS and VGA-0 are connected, screen 0 is expanded to encompass both displays, but LVDS is completely off. The virtual display is there though because my mouse can certainly leave the screen on that side. Also, I've tried this with all kinds of variations of --left-of, --right-of, --same-as, etc.
I have checked my logs and nothing shows up (journalctl -f and Xorg.0.log) that's out of the ordinary. As far as the logs show, X is operating as expected.
One last thing to note, once I've extended my display to VGA-0, LVDS won't come back on when I turn VGA off, unless I recycle both VGA-0 and LVDS and then bring just LVDS back (system management without a screen - try doing that Windows!). There's one other method I discovered today. If I change the LVDS crtc to a different value other than what it presently is. Making that change will cause it to alternate between VGA-0 as the activated and LVDS as the activated.
I would think that LVDS IS the VGA-0 and that all I'm doing by enabling VGA-0 is simply redirecting the output, except extending to VGA-0 works on Windows. Anyone have any thoughts as to what might be going on? I feel like I'm missing something that's staring me in the face.
Versions:
xorg-server 1.14.3-1
xf86-video-ati 1:7.2.0-1
ati-dri 9.2.0-2
lspci | grep -i "vga\|hdmi"
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Trinity [Radeon HD 7520G]
00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Trinity HDMI Audio Controller

Answer 1

A little more [hopefully] useful information here.
I just discovered that Xorg.1.log is not just the roll destination for Xorg.0.log... all this time I thought...
Anyways, nothing gets written to Xorg.1.log when I run any xrandr commands, but I did notice this little piece at the bottom of it (written at startup I presume).
Here's a large portion of the end of Xorg.1.log (most of the rest is just loading in drivers and talking about each one's capabilities, especially the ati/radeon driver)
[ 1604.319] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for neomagic
[ 1604.319] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for dummy
[ 1604.319] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for voodoo
[ 1604.319] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for ark
[ 1604.319] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for glint
[ 1604.319] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for sis
[ 1604.319] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for trident
[ 1604.319] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for v4l
[ 1604.481] (II) v4l: 0 video adapters with overlay support detected
[ 1604.481] (II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev
[ 1604.481] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
[ 1604.482] (++) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf.new"
[ 1604.482] (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 1604.482] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 1604.483] (==) ServerLayout "X.org Configured"
[ 1604.483] (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
[ 1604.483] (**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
[ 1604.483] (**) | |-->Device "Card0"
[ 1604.483] (**) |-->Screen "Screen1" (1)
[ 1604.483] (**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor1"
[ 1604.483] (**) | |-->Device "Card1"
[ 1604.483] (**) |-->Screen "Screen2" (2)
[ 1604.483] (**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor2"
[ 1604.483] (**) | |-->Device "Card2"
[ 1604.483] (**) |-->Screen "Screen3" (3)
[ 1604.483] (**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor3"
[ 1604.484] (**) | |-->Device "Card3"
[ 1604.484] (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
[ 1604.484] (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
[ 1604.484] (==) Automatically adding devices
[ 1604.484] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[ 1604.484] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
[ 1604.484] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/" does not exist.
[ 1604.484] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 1604.484] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/".
[ 1604.484] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 1604.484] (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/").
[ 1604.484] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/".
[ 1604.484] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 1604.484] (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/").
[ 1604.484] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/" does not exist.
[ 1604.484] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 1604.484] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/".
[ 1604.484] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 1604.484] (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/").
[ 1604.484] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/".
[ 1604.484] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 1604.484] (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/").
[ 1604.484] (**) FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/misc/,
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,
/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,
/usr/share/fonts/misc/,
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,
/usr/share/fonts/Type1/
[ 1604.484] (**) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
[ 1604.484] (WW) Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
[ 1604.484] (WW) Disabling Mouse0
[ 1604.484] (WW) Disabling Keyboard0
[ 1604.484] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
[ 1604.484] (II) modesetting(1): using default device
[ 1604.484] (II) [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled.
[ 1604.485] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
[ 1604.485] (II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw"
[ 1604.485] (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
[ 1604.485] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfbdevhw.so
[ 1604.485] (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 1604.485] compiled for 1.14.2, module version = 0.0.2
[ 1604.485] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 14.1
[ 1604.485] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
[ 1604.485] Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices.
Configuration failed.
I noticed that line at the bottom there "Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices". I assume that's talking about xrandr "screen 0" and how earlier in the log it created screens 0-3. I'll do more research into that bit of xrandr. That's about where my knowledge stops.