F17 External Monitor on 945GM

[Andrew Haley]

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.

Andrew.