Bug 6885

Hello,

I have an nc6000 HP laptop with Radeon card, as well as a docking
station with DVI port, with a flat screen attached to it.

Before upgrading to xorg from xfree86 (i.e. Debian Sarge to Etch), I was able to
have one configuration and the xserver would
do the right thing:
- laptop standalone: 1024x768 on the internal display.
- laptop in docking station: 1280x1024 on external screen.
(I'm *not* trying to have something fancy like dual screen!)

Now, I need to have two configurations: the old one (xorg.conf_NoLayout) when
undocked, and a new one with MonitorLayout set to TMDS (xorg.conf_TMDSLayout)
when docked. It of course makes me the laugh of all my (Windows) colleagues.

And if I use the wrong configuration file, I get the following behavior:
- laptop standalone: internal display shows completely garbled picture,
  looks like wrong sync parameters; I suspect trying to represent
  1280x1024 on a display with 1024x768.
- laptop docked: the external screen doesn't show anything. I suspect
  it's running on the internal screen.
In both cases, the xserver doesn't notice anything strange and runs
happily.

I would really like to be able to run with only one configuration, without need
to switch anything manually.

Thanks, Eric