[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-ati 6.7.196

[Alex Deucher]

On Nov 14, 2007 10:44 AM, Andrew Clayton <andrew at pccl.info> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:16:01 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
>
> >
> > We are not able to reliably do load detection on the tv dac as of yet
> > so the connection status is unknown.  You can force the output off by
> > default in your config.  See this page for more info:
> > http://www.intellinuxgraphics.com/dualhead.html
>
> Cheers, I'll take a look at that.
>
> > you can also force it off at runtime with:
> > xrandr --output DVI-0 --off
>
> Yeah, I did try that, but it doesn't seem to have any effect. xrandr
> still lists the DVI-0 as unknown connection.

right.  It still doesn't know the connection status, but the output is off.

Alex

>
> > It's an intel page but it applies to any randr 1.2 capable driver.
> > The driver used to default to unconnected on the tv dac if DDC failed,
> > but that led to some users not being able to get the xserver up if
> > they were using an old pre-edid monitor or have a chip with
> > problematic ddc.
> >
> > Alex
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>