On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 13:17 -0500, P Kapat wrote:
>
> On Nov 23, 2007 8:49 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hotplugging a VGA monitor to an alubook 5,8 with a fresh ati driver
> > works ... minor mouse isues, as of yet, but working :) ... details
> > below ..
>
> I became a bit more adventurous and tried out the experimental ati
> driver... Hotplugging a VGA monitor seems to work (on my iBook G4 -
> powerbook 6,5) exactly as hotplugging should, that is without any
> "xrandr --output --DVI-0 --auto" command - wow that is just insanely
> cool....
This is by accident though, not by intention - there's currently no
mechanism implemented to automatically enable/disable outputs on
hotplugging.
> The low contrast issue that I had mentioned in my earlier
> mail, is almost solved now, I can see the light colors fine - but it
> is still not "pleasing"...
If you can't solve this, please bring it up on the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] list.
> > On Fri, Nov 23 2007, at 09:55 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > >
> > > The kernel doesn't matter for this. With xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.7.19x
> > > (so far only available in experimental), external displays with a VGA
> > > connector should work with all Radeon {Power,i}Books. Displays with a
> > > DVI connector can be trickier; depending on the PowerBook model and
> > > driver version, Option "MacModel" "powerbook" or "powerbook-duallink"
> > > may help for those.
>
> For the iBook, I am using Option "MacModel" "ibook" ...
You shouldn't need it at all, iBooks should be autodetected now.
Autodetection isn't perfect for PowerBooks with DVI connectors yet
though, hence the above advice.
> A load of warm greetings to all the coders on this.....good work guys.
RandR 1.2 support in the radeon driver was mostly implemented by Dave
Airlie and Alex Deucher.
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Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
