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
