On a Dell 630m laptop with an i915GM video card, hotkey-switching (Fn-F8) does do what it is supposed to do: switching from LFP -> CRT -> LFP & CRT simultaneously. However, when both the LFP & CRT are on simultaneously, the CRT output is unusable. The display wobbles back and forth and makes you feel like the monitor is about to blow up. From the i855crt documentation (http://sourceforge.net/projects/i855crt) it appears that this is due to both outputs being enabled from the same pipe. Using the i855crt userspace program does turn on the crt cleanly (i810switch has the same problem as the hotkey). Using the clone option in xorg.conf also turns on the crt cleanly - but when operating on batteries it would be nice to not have the second output turned on all the time. It would clearly be best if the hotkey did the right thing on its own. If there is some reason not to have it use the second pipe by default on a hot-key switch, maybe there could be an xorg-option like: CloneOnHotKey "on" ? Otherwise this card works great for me: no problems with suspend/resume and dual head (xinerama and two separate screens) works fine. The 855resolution tool is needed to get the widescreen display working properly. Thanks for the nice work.
Yes, I could definately add a CloneOnHotkey option. I'll try and do this next week.
That would be excellent. I'd be happy to test.
Before I add it, you should be able to get similar behaviour with the clone option already. Try this... Even though the second screen will be on at startup, if you hotkey, it should cycle through the LFP, CRT and LFP+CRT for clone.
Yes, when Clone is set in xorg.conf, it does cycle properly. I guess the only difference CloneOnHotKey option will have from Clone is to start up in the LFP state, but the behaviour otherwise should be identical. There is one other somewhat related issue - this laptop has a 1280x768 widescreen, if I don't remember to reset the resolution before switching it makes the crt very unhappy, but that's probably a problem for another day.
Created attachment 4802 [details] [review] Patch for CloneOnHotKey option I've given this a try on my own. The attached patch works for me... Any chance this could get officially added?
Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys. Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.
The bug priority was upgraded (P2->high) with the bugzilla configuration change. I'm Changing the priority back to the normal one. Sorry for the spam.
Closing. Please use the new 2.0 driver.
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