Re: radeon driver updates for mac laptops
* Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> [2007-09-24 15:15:40 CEST]:
> On 9/24/07, Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at> wrote:
> > 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.
Hmm, it seems like running --auto switched my system to forced mirror
mode, I can't seem to switch back to --right-of LVDS. Is this on
intention, I don't guess so...
> > > 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
Ah, thanks. I saw someone else in the thread mentioning it but haven't
seen any reply to that so I thought I might add the confirm.
So long,
Rhonda
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