xorg blowup

[James Pifer]

On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 09:31, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, James Pifer wrote:
> 
> > Here's another oddity. If I'm not in X I can hit Fn-F4 and turn the
> > laptop's display off so the screen is only on the external display. As
> > soon as I startx the laptop display comes back on, so both are on, and
> > Fn-F4 does nothing.
> 
> The xorg Radeon driver doesn't currently support switching between LCD and 
> CRT displays.  That's apparently a regression from XFree86, so we can hope 
> it will be fixed eventually.
> 
> There's a package called radeontool (see Dag's repo) that can control the 
> backlight and video-out power manually, but it's a bit of a hack.
> 
> -

I tried radeontool. Maybe I did something wrong, but it doesn't seem to
change anything. Looking at the options I'm not sure it would help
anyway. 

I was on a previous version of xorg, not sure which, and everything was
fine. When I was on my laptop display it gave me a resolution of
1280x800 (i think) and when I had my external monitor hooked up I got
1280x1024 (definitely).

Since the xorg upgrade to 6.8.2 I'm honestly not sure what resolutions
are trying to be used. I think it's using 1024x768 on both.

James