The i810switch program has been around for a while, and it forces the Intel i810 - i945 series video chips to enable or disable the external VGA or LCD panel video output devices on a laptop. i810switch has not had an update since June 2005.
In Fedora 8, the xrandr application provides this same functionality, natively in the Xorg subsystem.
In my limited testing, xrandr works on the i810 class hardware I have access to.
I'd like to drop i810switch from the distribution for Fedora 8, and add a release note suggesting users of i810switch use xrandr instead.
Thoughts?
Thanks, Matt
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 19:23 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
The i810switch program has been around for a while, and it forces the Intel i810 - i945 series video chips to enable or disable the external VGA or LCD panel video output devices on a laptop. i810switch has not had an update since June 2005.
In Fedora 8, the xrandr application provides this same functionality, natively in the Xorg subsystem.
In my limited testing, xrandr works on the i810 class hardware I have access to.
I'd like to drop i810switch from the distribution for Fedora 8, and add a release note suggesting users of i810switch use xrandr instead.
Thoughts?
How does the xrandr method compare to i810switch's in terms of energy saving? Do they do the same thing to switch off the video output? If i810switch's method is better, can it's mechanism be rolled in to xrandr (via upstream, of course, 8-|). --
Richi Plana
On Fr September 28 2007, Matt Domsch wrote:
In Fedora 8, the xrandr application provides this same functionality, natively in the Xorg subsystem.
In my limited testing, xrandr works on the i810 class hardware I have access to.
How can one use xrandr to enable/disable vga output? I can test this with my X41 Thinkpad.
Regards, Till
On 28/09/2007, Till Maas opensource@till.name wrote:
On Fr September 28 2007, Matt Domsch wrote:
In Fedora 8, the xrandr application provides this same functionality, natively in the Xorg subsystem.
In my limited testing, xrandr works on the i810 class hardware I have access to.
How can one use xrandr to enable/disable vga output? I can test this with my X41 Thinkpad.
xrandr --output VGA --off
Jonathan Underwood wrote:
On 28/09/2007, Till Maas opensource@till.name wrote:
On Fr September 28 2007, Matt Domsch wrote:
In Fedora 8, the xrandr application provides this same functionality, natively in the Xorg subsystem.
In my limited testing, xrandr works on the i810 class hardware I have access to.
How can one use xrandr to enable/disable vga output? I can test this with my X41 Thinkpad.
xrandr --output VGA --off
Is there an xrandr (KDE) applet to provide a nice GUI way of doing this?
On 28/09/2007, Orion Poplawski orion@cora.nwra.com wrote:
Is there an xrandr (KDE) applet to provide a nice GUI way of doing this?
I don't know of one for KDE, but there is urandr for gnome:
http://albertomilone.com/wordpress/?p=118 https://code.launchpad.net/urandr https://launchpad.net/urandr
I have it running fine here on F7.
For KDE there's krandrtray, not sure if it handles the new features though
On 9/28/07, Jonathan Underwood jonathan.underwood@gmail.com wrote:
On 28/09/2007, Orion Poplawski orion@cora.nwra.com wrote:
Is there an xrandr (KDE) applet to provide a nice GUI way of doing this?
I don't know of one for KDE, but there is urandr for gnome:
http://albertomilone.com/wordpress/?p=118 https://code.launchpad.net/urandr https://launchpad.net/urandr
I have it running fine here on F7.
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On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 19:23 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
The i810switch program has been around for a while, and it forces the Intel i810 - i945 series video chips to enable or disable the external VGA or LCD panel video output devices on a laptop. i810switch has not had an update since June 2005.
In Fedora 8, the xrandr application provides this same functionality, natively in the Xorg subsystem.
In my limited testing, xrandr works on the i810 class hardware I have access to.
I'd like to drop i810switch from the distribution for Fedora 8, and add a release note suggesting users of i810switch use xrandr instead.
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