On Wed, 5 May 2010 11:12:13 +1000 Dave Airlie <airl...@gmail.com> wrote: > So at startup X drivers genearlly seem to ask for a list of > connectors and status for them, and if it can't find any connected, > it goes to unknown, and if none of those they fall over and X exits. > Idea 1 was to just pick a connector and claim it is connected when > nothing else is, however this falls over, for DVI esp on a dual-DVI > card. You pick a DVI connector, claim it is connected, you most > likely end up turning on the analog portion of it, you hotplug a > digital connector and the uevent gets sent, the client app repolls > the connector status, sees the connector is still connected so > doesn't do anything. Forcing a disconnect/connect is incredibly racy > and hard. So Ben Skeggs suggested we just fake a disconnected > connector for this case. It looks a bit messy in xrandr, but from > what I can see the gnome client ignores it as it should.
It's an ugly problem... When the hotplug event is received, wouldn't you re-probe and find a digital monitor attached? If so, that would mean a mode set sent in by the X server should end up being a full one since the current config is incompatible. Which means X just has to know it forced a mode, so when any event comes in it should re-set the mode unconditionally... Jesse ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
