Hi, I am not sure that Dri-devel is the right place to ask this question but here it is:
I have found in the latest Radeon Drivers for XFree86 the new PanelOff option which when set to "on" in XFree86Config-4 shuts the LCD of your laptop but keeps your external monitor on. It is particularly useful when your laptop is plugged into a replicator which itself is connected to a wider 19" external monitor, a true keyboard and a true mouse (USB). Then you can close the cover of your laptop and use it as a desktop. My former Laptop was a Dell laptop where the switch was done automatically via the bios (I think), but now with this Sony Z1 Laptop which has an ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY video card I need to do it by software and use this PanelOff option. Thus, I have two different XF86Config files, one for the dock station (replicator) where PanelOff is set to "on" and a second where it is "off" or commented. Thus I use two commands, startx and startx-dock, depending on if the laptop is in its dock or not. It is working fine. But now I want to switch "dynamically" from one setting to another without shutting down the X server. And here is my question: can I modify the setting of the radeon card while XWindows is running in order to just switch PanelOff from on to off with a command line program? This command line program could be also useful while presenting on a barco in order to safe power by shutting the LCD and teaching without a powercard. The new Intel Centrino laptops (like this Sony) can use the recent ndiswrapper (ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net) modules in order to access Internet wireless on Linux. Typical autonomy of Pentium M is about 5 hours which really enables your to teach or present wireless (you still need a barco wired!). While googling I found a recent tvo_set command line program from Federico Ulivi (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/gatos/ati.2/) and he just wrote me the following excerpt: "Hi, I gave a look at your question and I think that in principle it should be possible to implement a "paneloff" switch through something like tvo_set. You should create a new xv attribute in radeon_video.c and connect this attribute to the part in radeon_driver.c where paneloff logic is located (e.g. you could call a function in radeon_driver.c whenever your xv attribute is modified). Once this is in place, it should be very simple to change tvo_set to modify this attribute under user command. HTH. Bye, Federico Ulivi" (I send a BCC to him in order to avoid archiving his email). But meanwhile I got one answer from redhat people telling me to ask the DRI-Devel team to know if somebody had already thought to this question and could give advices. It is also true that I am closer to an end-user than a developper (I am just doing a small contribution to Linux on http://sauvy.ined.fr/~brouard/sony but can't spend too much time). I also found i810switch http://vorlon.ces.cwru.edu/~ames/i810switch/ which concerns another chipset than the radeon but with the same current need. The commercial Xaccel program has the facility to switch (with ALT-tab) but their radeon drivers do not work correctly on this Sony Z1 (Xfree works well on 1400x1050 24bpp). Any information will be appreciated. -- Nicolas Brouard ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
