F7t4 - intel driver doesn't seem to hot-swap displays

Per Bothner per at bothner.com
Thu May 3 15:22:30 UTC 2007


Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 23:32 -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
>>>> Thanks!  With some experimentation and Googling I even managed to get
>>>> dual-screen working pretty well.  (I had edit the "Virtual" Display size
>>>> in xorg.conf, which is clunky.)  Perhaps for F8 we'll have a nice
>>>> GUI interface for managing multiple displays, but for now this works.
>>>> -- 
>>> Would you mind making your xorg.conf available?
>> I've attached it.  The only change I made manually was adding the
>>      Virtual         3040 1200
>> line.
> 
> I suspect this will only do anything useful for 965 chips.  945 and
> below have a hardware coordinate limit of 2048x2048, and the driver
> isn't smart enough to work around that yet.  965's limit is 4096x4096.

Huh?   My Dell E1405 contains an Intel 945GM, according
to Xorg.log.0.
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