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

Adam Jackson ajackson at redhat.com
Thu May 3 14:12:19 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 23:32 -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> Anthony Joseph Seward wrote:
> >>> 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?
> 
> I've attached it.  The only change I made manually was adding the
>      Virtual         3040 1200
> line.

I suspect this will only do anything useful for 965 chips.  945 and
below have a hardware coordinate limit of 2048x2048, and the driver
isn't smart enough to work around that yet.  965's limit is 4096x4096.

- ajax




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