Re: radeon driver updates for mac laptops
On 9/24/07, Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at> wrote:
> * Uwe Steinmann <uwe@steinmann.cx> [2007-09-24 13:19:48 CEST]:
> > (II) RADEON(0): Output LVDS connected
> > (II) RADEON(0): Output VGA-0 disconnected
> > (II) RADEON(0): Output S-video disconnected
> > (II) RADEON(0): Output LVDS using initial mode 1024x768
> >
> > I already bootet with the external monitor pluged in, but that doesn't
> > make a difference.
>
> Did you give xrandr a try? Like,
> "xrandr --output VGA-0 --right-of LVDS"? It doesn't use it by default,
> which I personally don't want anyway, and you haven't sent your
> xorg.conf with which you expected it to be used by default.
>
> What I wonder, is there a way to automatically detect that the VGA/DVI
> part got plugged in? I wonder if some triggers could be implemented,
> but I haven't seen anything in dmesg/syslog/messages about it.
>
yes, if the monitor provides DDC, running xrandr --auto should do the
trick. If the monitor does not provide DDC, we attempt load detection
on the primary dac. We have load detection code for the tvdac as
well, but it tends to be unreliable so it's disabled by default.
> > BTW: the updated ati driver scrambles the mouse pointer. It is shifted
> > to on side by probably half the width.
Known issue:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11796
Alex
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