F17 External Monitor on 945GM

[Andrew Haley]

On 07/24/2012 06:41 PM, Philippe LeCavalier wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/24/2012 04:20 PM, Philippe LeCavalier wrote:
>>> Yeah. It doesn't appear to be a hardware thing.  xrandr --auto --output
>>> VGA1 --same-as LVDS1 does the same as merely connecting the monitor
>> itself.
>>> LCD flickers and comes back and the monitor does nothing. To me, the fact
>>> that the LCD flickers sows it's scanning the new layout. The only way I
>> get
>>> any type of activity on the external monitor is to invoke the  keyboard
>>> toggle Fn-F5. But as mentioned, things get ugly fast when I do that.
>>
>> As far as I can see there's not much more you can do.  I think you're
>> looking at a real driver bug that needs reporting and fixing.
> 
> Alrighty then. To be honest I'm not entirely certain how to do that. As is,
> what info to collect and to what project would I submit said info!?  Sorry.
> I have little experience in submitting bugs but I'd like to contribute what
> I can...Sure someone will encounter this that could use the reference.
> Obviously I wouldn't mind having the fix myself as well ;)

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugzilla

Please just describe the problem.  You don't have to type much,
because you can just include a URL like this one:

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2012-July/422209.html

Thanks,
Andrew.