Bug#468475: xserver-xorg-video-ati: Can't ignore/disable monitor

[Ove Kaaven <ovek@arcticnet.no>]

Alex Deucher skrev:
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:30 AM, Ove Kaaven <ovek@arcticnet.no> wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati
> >  Version: 1:6.8.0-1
> >  Severity: important
> >
> >  If I uncomment the Option "Ignore" "true" in any of the Monitor
> >  sections in xorg.conf (see below), even "TV Out", the Radeon
> >  driver unloads and X doesn't start. And right now I'd really like
> >  to disable the "LCD Panel" so that GNOME might pick up the higher
> >  resolutions on my "External Monitor".
> >
> >  (Guess there was something wrong in the package I got from experimental
> >  after all... but I really needed that IgnoreLidStatus thing, since my
> >  ACPI is broken. Hmm, wait, I only really needed it to prevent the
> >  "LCD Panel" from being disabled... hmm... well, anyway, this is a bug
> >  regardless, so here you are.)
>
> I think the ignore option may be broken in the xserver.  What you
> really want is:
> Option "Disable" "True"

Yay for poorly documented options...

> Also, the if you want to use the acpi lid status, you need to set the
> option to false otherwise it will ignore the lid status.

I don't actually *want* to use it. It's pretty useless on my system, as 
it always thinks the lid is closed, even when it's open. I just couldn't 
come up with any other way to disable the LCD...

> It also need
> to be in the device section not the monitor section:
> Option          "IgnoreLidStatus"       "False"

I noticed when I tried, but thanks anyway.