i810: missing modes when unpluging CRT

[Dan Nicholson]

On 2/5/07, Ross Burton <ross at burtonini.com> wrote:
>
> I've nearly got the modesettings/xrandr1.2 foo all working as I want,
> but I'm having a problem whilst writing a small script to automatically
> adjust.  The magic part of the script:
>
> xrandr -q | grep -q  "VGA connected"
> if [ $? ]; then
>   xrandr --output 0x5d --off --output 0x5c --mode 0x6c
> else
>   xrandr --output 0x5c --off --output 0x5d --mode 0x60
> fi

I have no idea about the modesetting part, but that shell logic won't
work. The "if [ ... ]" is just checking whether the $? string is empty
or not. It will always have a character, so that test is always true.
This would work (except, you don't test success of xrandr itself, only
the grep):

if xrandr -q | grep -q  "VGA connected"; then
    true case
else
    failure case
fi

since the shell knows how to handle the success of the command on its own.

If you really want to test whether $? is 0 or 1, use numeric expansion (in bash)

if (( $? )); then
    failure case
else
    true case
fi

--
Dan