>>>>> "Samuel" == Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> writes:
Samuel> Some blind people report that Xorg refuses to start when no screen Samuel> is connected to their machine. Samuel> - have drivers not fail when no screen is connected, but use some Samuel> default sane resolution. Needs cooperation from all drivers. That is the only sane option. There is no need to use a different video driver. All drivers for video hardware which can drive an external monitor ought to be able to handle hot plugging of external monitors. And they ought to be able to do it themselves, without bothering with any external daemons. They are, after all, driving the very hardware which controls the external sockets. The default might have to be 640x...@60hz -- unless of course something is specified in xorg.conf -- but so be it. On hardware which can do reliable hot plug detection, the EDID can be read and the modes set whenever a monitor is connected or turned on, and the current output can be left alone whenever a monitor is turned off or disconnected. On hardware which cannot do reliable hot plug detection, only change modes when asked -- via xrandr -- by the user. -JimC -- James Cloos <[email protected]> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
