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

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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