Re: Request for comments: Laptop improvements

[Olivier Galibert <galibert pobox com>]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:24:39PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> AIUI, the problem here is that we have no way to know that has happened.
> We get no 'event' signal when things go away, and a vga cable is 'stateless'.
> so there's not even a way to poll the cable to see if anything is connected.

You can poll through DDC it seems, unless your monitor is old/strange
enough not to support DDC.  Xorg OTOH can't handle dynamic framebuffer
resizing AFAIK.

  OG.