xorg blowup
James Pifer
jep at obrien-pifer.com
Thu Jun 2 18:48:22 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 09:31, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, James Pifer wrote:
>
> > Here's another oddity. If I'm not in X I can hit Fn-F4 and turn the
> > laptop's display off so the screen is only on the external display. As
> > soon as I startx the laptop display comes back on, so both are on, and
> > Fn-F4 does nothing.
>
> The xorg Radeon driver doesn't currently support switching between LCD and
> CRT displays. That's apparently a regression from XFree86, so we can hope
> it will be fixed eventually.
>
> There's a package called radeontool (see Dag's repo) that can control the
> backlight and video-out power manually, but it's a bit of a hack.
>
> --
> Matthew Saltzman
>
Well, it's not pretty but I have an xorg.conf that works for the
external display, and I have one that works for the laptop's display. I
can't get one that works both correctly at one time.
I hope that this is fixed down the road, because this is a real pain.
Thanks for your efforts.
James
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