Bug 2512

Summary: Presence of a second head is only checked at server startup
Product: xorg Reporter: Daniel Burrows <dburrows>
Component: Driver/RadeonAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: high    
Version: 6.8.1   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Daniel Burrows 2005-02-09 06:50:31 UTC
I recently installed X.org, and discovered to my delight that it fixed some of
my longstanding complaints with the XFree86 driver on my Radeon IGP card: I no
longer get screen corruption on the second head, my laptop's LCD panel switches
off when the second head is plugged in, and DRI seems to work!  Naturally,
therefore, I have new complaints to bring forward ;-)

Now that I can use the second head (an external CRT) in a clone mode, the fact
that the driver (apparently) only checks for the presence of the CRT on startup
is getting a bit annoying.  In particular, I'd like to be able to unplug the
laptop and carry it somewhere else to work.  Unfortunately, if I do this, the
LCD remains disabled until I kill the X server and restart it. :-(  This means,
of course, that I have to kill all the software that's running in my X session.
I would like to be able to unplug (and preferably also plug in) an external
monitor and have the X server switch between the panel and the other monitor as
I do so.  I'm pretty sure this worked in That Other Operating System, so the
hardware must be able to handle it.
Comment 1 Adam Jackson 2006-04-04 22:19:14 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2589 ***

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