On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:

> > That's all correct.  The central issue is that the driver is not notified
> > when the hot-keys are pressed.  In fact, these keys don't even generate a
> > scancode.  Eventually, atimisc will provide its own key combinations to
> > switch outputs under driver control.  In the meantime, the laptop's
> > outputs should be set up as needed before starting the X server.

> What is atimisc?

'atimisc' is that part of the ATI driver that is loaded when a VGAWonder,
Mach32 or Mach64 variant is detected by the 'ati' front-end module.

Marc.

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