Re: radeon driver updates for mac laptops
On 9/24/07, Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at> wrote:
> * 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...
>
Actually just about any time you run xrandr it re-queries the outputs.
I don't see why you shouldn't be able to switch back. what sort of
error are you getting?
Alex
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