On Don, 2013-02-14 at 13:19 +0100, Andreas Glaeser wrote: > Upon reinstalling today and doing no text-mode configuration at all to Xorg, > I put > 'video=LVDS-1:d" boot option into /etc/default/grub, 'linux-firmware-nonfree' > was > installed, then 'update-grub' was done. Although it was a bit tricky to > guess, where the > 'Apply'-button was and to click on it, because it was mostly outside of the > visible area > of the default 640x480 screen, when changing the Displays-setting to higher > resolutions > under System-Settings.'Mirror displays' was deselected and 'Laptop' too. > Now blanking of the virtual terminals still appears and the X-display is not > affected by > this, as before, so it is clearly not necessary to create an xorg.conf-file.
I think the best solution would be to add a quirk to the kernel to permanently disable the LVDS output on this hardware. Then you wouldn't even need video=LVDS-1:d. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
