[ltp] LCD-DVI on T4x; ultrabay hotswap

[Alex Deucher]

On 9/8/05, Andrey Kislyuk <kislyuk@ocf.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> I'm having two long-standing problems with my T40 which I have made no
> progress with for a long time.
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> 1. I can't switch video output (console or X, running kernel radeon
> driver) between the LCD and external DVI (port replicator pass-through).
> The relevant ibm-acpi commands don't do anything.
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The Xorg radeon driver doesn't support this configuration yet.  I've
worked on it, but without the hardware, it's hard to do.

> 2. I can't safely hotswap my dvd drive for my second hdd drive. The IDE
> subsystem logs a bunch of error messages, and normally I can't insert
> either device back in and have it work.

parallel IDE doesn't support hotswap yet AFAIK.  there are some hacks
I think, but nothing official yet.

Alex

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> Both things work flawlessly in Windows with no tweaking at all.
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> Any suggestions?
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> -ak