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"Dmitri Pogosyan" <pogosyan@×××××××××××××.ca> posted |
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200906172226.n5HMQ9o11978@×××××××××××××××××××××.ca, excerpted below, on |
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Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:26:09 -0600: |
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> Multimonitor functionality is, however, a must. |
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FWIW, I'm in 100% agreement with you. I run dual 1920x1200 stacked for |
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1920x2400, and if the new drivers don't do that, I'll be back to the old |
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drivers faster than fsck! |
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But I don't expect it to be a problem, because while it's relatively |
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uncommon to run dual desktop monitors and probably always will be as |
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laptops are the majority seller now, there's a LOT of folks now days that |
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will flat call it broken if their laptop can't work with both the |
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internal and external monitors at the same time! In fact, that was and |
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remains the big push behind RandR and input hotplugging as well, and now |
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that they've got it working reasonably well, they're NOT going to go back |
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to having it broken, or people will be walking away, as I said, faster |
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than fsck! |
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Plus, enough of the xorg devs work with laptops and do enough "mobile |
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warrioring" that it's not as if they don't have the hardware or the need |
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to keep it working just for themselves, because they do. |
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So I just don't see it as even a possibility that they'll implement it |
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without that. |
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Still it's a a very good question, one that while it's important to me, I |
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hadn't thought of, simply because I /don't/ believe it within the realm |
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of reason. So I'm glad /someone's/ thinking about it! |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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