On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 01:31:18AM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote:
> I plugged a monitor into my laptop's VGA port. I ran xrandr --auto
> and got the mirrored screen. I found it a little distracting, so I
> turned off the LVDS: xrandr --output LVDS --off. So far, so good.
>
> Now I want to unplug the monitor. How do I turn the laptop screen
> back on? I note that there is no --on option to match with --off.
>
> atom:~> xrandr --output LVDS --auto
> xrandr: Configure crtc 1 invalid time
>
> Am I looking at a bug, user error, missing feature, what?
one of the first two.
Normally, turning an output on would be:
xrandr --output <whatever> --{auto|mode <mode>} <positional arguments>
Sounds like the mode calculation code wrongly guesses that it can't
clock the LVDS the was it was before.
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