On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 02:32, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 18:42, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 14:30, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 14:02, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > [...] > > > > > No no, not the alternating black/white pixels, but a 99.99% white > > > > > screen > > > > > with some black dots. > > > > > > > > ahh sorry, external display... internal is fine. > > > > > > I suspect this is a bug triggered by the explicit Modes "1280x854". If > > > it works without, I have an idea how to fix it for the next version. > > > > You were right it works without... I am looking forward for your next > > (fixed) version :-) > > What do you need the Modes "1280x854" for though?
Hmmhhh... I really intensively tested now all the possible configurations (single/dualhead with and without xinerama) and must say wow! it is working very stably... I saw one problem once though, that when I switch from X to console and used less to view some log file and scrolled backwards, there was a stripe reproducing itself... Unfortunately I cannot reproduce this... and I was unable to trigger it again... > Yes, the driver probes for an external display via DDC and disables > output if it doesn't detect one. You could override this with Option > "MonitorLayout" though. True... Indeed if I leave out the above Modes option and start X without an external CRT but later on attach one, I also get some output on the monitor... it is a bit darker in the top though (wrong mode...)... With attached monitor the resolution of the external monitor is choosen, which is why I felt like I need the Mode option... Maybe infact I don't. I am still looking for 'the' solution, where one uses the internal DFP most of the time then connects an external CRT/DFP and makes use of that one without having to restart X... I thought I could do this by using a multihead config with two displays :0.0 and :0.1 but there I had the problem that the mouse cursor was somehow only on :0.1 and I did not know how to set the mouse to be on :0.0 ... A different option would be to use a xinerama mode, and have a program to somehow en/disable the mouse going to the external display... Very good job Michael ! It is a pity that XFree86 is not yet capable of adding displays dynamically like osx can... that would indeed "rock". Thanks a *lot*, Soeren.