On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Jhih-Sin Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Radeon HD 3470 card with xf86-video-ati 6.8.192 on my laptop. > I try to implement hotkey function to switch display device. > I have set _DOS parameter in ACPI and ask VBIOS to switch display > device but it fails. > > However, the hotkey function can switch display device successfully > when I use "vesa" driver. > Do you have any suggetion on this issue? Thanks.
It's disabled on purpose. The bios goes behind the driver's back and messes with the hardware which can lead to bad state or possibly hw locks. You can control the outputs with xrandr so please use that. On most laptops you can even change the video hotkey to produce acpi events rather than banging the hw directly and then you tie that event to a script that runs xrandr commands. Alex _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
