Bug#483314: xserver-xorg-video-intel: [945GM] Wrong resolution used for external monitor

[Sander Marechal <s.marechal@jejik.com>]

Brice Goglin wrote:
> Sander Marechal wrote: It's not a bug, it's a feature :) It is
> recommended that you do NOT use Fn+F8 or so because they may do
> things in the back of the driver and thus break things. New Xserver
> and drivers enable all outputs by default. You can disable some of
> them at runtime with xrandr or in xorg.conf. That's it.

That appears to me as quite a regression for laptop users. Especially
today on newer laptops with all the non-standard widescreen display sizes.

Can't the keyboard part of X.org intercept the keys for switching
between monitors (Fn+F8) and execute the correct xrandr commands to
toggle the display on and off?

> The only thing that could considered missing here from my point of
> view is a way to say in xorg.conf "if a VGA monitor is present,
> disable LVDS". Apart from that, the behavior looks coherent to me.
> Yes it's different than before, but it is still coherent.

Coherent, yes. But from an end-user point-of-view it's not as usable.
Now I need to manually reset my screen resolution everytime I switch
from internal monitor to external monitor between boots, while on Etch
everything worked fine.

-- 
Sander Marechal