Re: xorg blowup

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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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