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