[ltp] Radeon: hot-swap VGA-out monitor

Alex Deucher linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:39:43 -0400


On 9/12/07, Christopher Singley <chris@singleys.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 September 2007 03:59:25 Alex Deucher wrote:
> > for now you have to use xrandr or libxrandr.
>
> Is there an event-driven interface?
> Would be better than periodically running `xrandr -q` & parsing the output
> with awk...

no.  Unfortunately, we don't get interrupts on most hardware when we
plug in a monitor so you are stuck with polling.

Alex