[ltp] xorg and intel driver

[Takis Diakoumis]

xrandr --auto worked really well. i didn't know that one. i think i'll
do some reading up on that to get the 'perfect' combination of options
working but it has certainly solved the problem for the time being.

...that said, the clone (and others) option previously available for the
i810 xorg driver but not for the new intel is still puzzling. i've tried
to go through the changes summary files to see when/why this happened
and what the replacement if any is, but i haven't found anything
relevant yet.

thanks again for the suggestion - it does help me NOW which is great!!
i'll add this to my video acpi action.

Takis


On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 00:09 -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 12:39:21PM +1000, Takis Diakoumis wrote:
> > my recent upgrade of xorg to 7.2 with the new and renamed 'intel' driver
> > (from i810) appears to have removed some of the options i previously
> > applied to the device settings. as a result i can no longer 'just plug
> > in' my vga cable and get the display cloned to an external
> > monitor/projector. i never really used the Fn-F7 video switch as i never
> > really needed it since the external display was 'always' available. 
> > my xorg settings for the device are below:
> 
> For me (X60, intel, recent xorg), plugging in a VGA monitor doesn't
> automatically activate it, and Fn-F7 does nothing.  But if I plug in a
> VGA monitor and then run 'xrandr --auto', then the external monitor
> activates just as it should.  (There are various other xrandr switches
> that should let one tweak the external display handling.)
> 
> I would be curious to know how to make this happen automagically, but
> for now I just put a launcher for 'xrandr --auto' on my panel, and
> that makes activating an external screen into a one-click task, no
> fuss.
> 
> -- Nathaniel
> 
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