modeset on/off changes xrandr output

[Mary Ellen Foster]

2009/5/12 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com>:
>> > On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 10:08 +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
>> >> - Outputs have different names:
>> >>   - modeset: VGA1, LVDS1, DVI{1,2}, TV1
>> >>   - nomodeset: VGA, LVDS, HDMI-{1,2}, TV
>>
>> > This is a bug, we should be getting the names the same between KMS and
>> > UMS.  It's pretty much cosmetic though, IIRC Gnome will remember output
>> > configuration based on the EDID of the attached device and not the
>> > output name, so it shouldn't matter.
>>
>> But xorg.conf-based configuration still uses the output names as far
>> as I can tell (and the KDE randr tool doesn't seem to work very well
>> at all ...). Should I file this as a bug?
>
> True.  And yes, please.

Sorry for the delay; I have now edited my previous "everything" bug to
refer only to this device-name issue:
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496232

MEF

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