xrandr dual-screen usability survery (Was: Dual-head config broke with update to 1.4.2)

[Martin Cracauer]

Alex Deucher wrote on Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:38:16PM -0500: 
> 
> So fine, here's the yearly zaphod fix:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/commit/?id=579cdcf9b4e38c791a497b747a055fc0a07d8dd6

I'm afraid this doesn't quite do it.

It corrects the mistake of detecting DVI (see log).

But I still don't get dual screens, it still drops the internal LCD
screen and I end up with one screen, mirroed.  That happens both with
the fresh xorg.conf and with the xorg.conf that worked before with
just the new option put in.

Any ideas? Maybe I just overlooked some config option for a changed
default?

conf/log/backported-patch here:
http://www.cons.org/xorg-problem201002/firstpatch/

I also noticed that the Xv extension on the VGA output is not
functional in that mirrored mode.  The LCD displays the video picture
but the VGA has a blue window.  This might be normal.

Martin
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