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Re: F7t4 - intel driver doesn't seem to hot-swap displays
- From: Anthony Joseph Seward <anthony seward ieee org>
- To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases <fedora-test-list redhat com>
- Subject: Re: F7t4 - intel driver doesn't seem to hot-swap displays
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 18:49:32 -0600
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 08:37 -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> Adam Jackson wrote:
> > We don't have automatic plug detection quite wired up yet. And we never
> > will, for some monitor types, because it would require polling, which is
> > usually not a price in battery life that people are willing to pay.
>
> That makes sense. Having a "detect displays" button like OS X has
> works ok too.
>
> > The new version of the xrandr command line tool should give you enough
> > rope to hang yourself here.
>
> Thanks! With some experimentation and Googling I even managed to get
> dual-screen working pretty well. (I had edit the "Virtual" Display size
> in xorg.conf, which is clunky.) Perhaps for F8 we'll have a nice
> GUI interface for managing multiple displays, but for now this works.
> --
Would you mind making your xorg.conf available?
Tony
> --Per Bothner
> per bothner com http://per.bothner.com/
>
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