i810 modesetting branch

[Alan Hourihane]

On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 08:51 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 09:28 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> > I have a ThinkPad X60 with an Intel 845GM chipset, and an external LCD
> > monitor.  My ideal world would be that when I plug in the external
> > monitor X notices and resizes the desktop to 1600x1050, when I unplug it
> > reduces down to the internal display size of 1024x768.  To ease this I
> > tried the modesetting branch of i810, but now if I do xrandr -s 0 either
> > nothing happens (except for the internal screen blanking briefly) or X
> > locks up.
> > 
> > So, I'll start with the simple questions: do I need anything special in
> > xorg.conf?  Do I need to list the resolutions I'd like to use in the
> > screen declaration, or can I remove that entire block now?  What is the
> > expected process for hot-plugging an external LCD?
> 
> I've tried again, and this time have X logs and configuration files
> (attached).
> 
> When I start X without the external display the driver probes the local
> TFT correctly and does the right thing.  Running xrandr shows that it
> has probed the device:
> 
> $ xrandr
>  SZ:    Pixels          Physical       Refresh
> *0   1024 x 768    ( 250mm x 181mm )  *59  
>  1    832 x 624    ( 250mm x 181mm )   60  
>  2    800 x 600    ( 250mm x 181mm )   60  
> Current rotation - normal
> Current reflection - none
> Rotations possible - normal left inverted right 
> Reflections possible - none
> 
> If I then plug in the external TFT into the VGA socket and run "xrandr
> -s 0", X locks for a few seconds, then the external display activates
> but is mainly purple, then X crashes dropping me back at GDM.  At this
> point I tried going to a console to copy the log files but was hit by
> the X->vt bug in i810, so had to type blind.
> 
> Any ideas?  As I said, I'd like there to be a single screen on the
> machine and when the external display is connected for it to expand in
> size to fill it.

That's the general idea, but there's still work to be done on the
modesetting branch.

Alan.