F7t4 - intel driver doesn't seem to hot-swap displays

Wed May 2 00:49:32 UTC 2007

On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 08:37 -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> Adam Jackson wrote:
> > We don't have automatic plug detection quite wired up yet.  And we never
> > will, for some monitor types, because it would require polling, which is
> > usually not a price in battery life that people are willing to pay.
> 
> That makes sense.  Having a "detect displays" button like OS X has
> works ok too.
> 
> > The new version of the xrandr command line tool should give you enough
> > rope to hang yourself here.
> 
> Thanks!  With some experimentation and Googling I even managed to get
> dual-screen working pretty well.  (I had edit the "Virtual" Display size
> in xorg.conf, which is clunky.)  Perhaps for F8 we'll have a nice
> GUI interface for managing multiple displays, but for now this works.
> -- 

Would you mind making your xorg.conf available?

Tony

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