xorg blowup

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, James Pifer wrote:

> Here's another oddity. If I'm not in X I can hit Fn-F4 and turn the
> laptop's display off so the screen is only on the external display. As
> soon as I startx the laptop display comes back on, so both are on, and
> Fn-F4 does nothing.

The xorg Radeon driver doesn't currently support switching between LCD and 
CRT displays.  That's apparently a regression from XFree86, so we can hope 
it will be fixed eventually.

There's a package called radeontool (see Dag's repo) that can control the 
backlight and video-out power manually, but it's a bit of a hack.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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