[PATCH] Always enable outputs that have been forced on in the configuration file

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Pauli Nieminen <suokkos at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Simon Farnsworth <simon.farnsworth at onelan.co.uk>
>
> If the user has gone to the effort of manually enabling an output in
> the configuration file assume that they know what they're doing.
>
> X.org Bug 14611 <http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14611>
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Farnsworth <simon.farnsworth at onelan.co.uk>

Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>

> ---
>
> I'm just forwarding this patch from the bug report after testing it
> with xserver 1.6. I didn't test with any newer server because of
> a lot of missing build dependencies.
>
> Use cases for this patch are:
> 1. Broken display devices that can't be detected.
> 2. Display devices that take longer to be ready than boot time is.
> 3. To start xserver in headless computer.
>
> For me this fixes the case 3. I want to run headless computer remotely
> for testing mesa.
>
>  hw/xfree86/modes/xf86Crtc.c |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/xfree86/modes/xf86Crtc.c b/hw/xfree86/modes/xf86Crtc.c
> index 573fe96..9b1ff28 100644
> --- a/hw/xfree86/modes/xf86Crtc.c
> +++ b/hw/xfree86/modes/xf86Crtc.c
> @@ -1573,7 +1573,8 @@ xf86ProbeOutputModes (ScrnInfoPtr scrn, int maxX, int maxY)
>         */
>        output->status = (*output->funcs->detect)(output);
>
> -       if (output->status == XF86OutputStatusDisconnected)
> +       if (output->status == XF86OutputStatusDisconnected &&
> +               !xf86ReturnOptValBool(output->options, OPTION_ENABLE, FALSE))
>        {
>            xf86OutputSetEDID (output, NULL);
>            continue;
> --
> 1.6.3.3
>
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