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> As I said, it was quite the rough ride. But that was nearing the end of |
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> April, and things have been better since. Hopefully Radeon won't be |
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> quite as bad. We'll see I guess. |
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I am with Intel laptop since last September and passed through all of that. |
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It actually was not that bad, aspecially given that I don't need 3D |
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functionality much (although I tried to keep it in best working state) |
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> As for the last question, the example of external display mode, at |
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> minimum, it shouldn't regress (except for temporary regressions of the |
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> type Keith explained in his blog). The xorg folks have put an enormous |
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> amount of work into hotplug, and they won't be letting that go just for |
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> this. I'm not entirely sure on this, but from my understanding, X will |
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> still be in control of the modes. It'll simply use the kernel's EDID/DDC |
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> detection instead of its own to see what modes are there (and whether any |
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> additional modes as configured will work within the detected card and |
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> monitor parameters) and to do the actual mode switches, but it'll be |
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> telling the kernel what mode to use, tho the default will be native/ |
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> primary mode for both the CLI/text framebuffer and X initially, thus no |
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> mode change switching between them. |
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Interestingly, I don't care much about VT switching (well, no flickering is |
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nice, but I switch perhaps once every few days), nor security (I use X for 16 |
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years already from the epoch of X-terminals, and never really heard of any |
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specific case when X was used to break in mind doing any damage, again its |
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nice to be safer, but overall it seems like red herring) nor that much about |
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framebuffer resolution because I got may native 1440x900 from vesafb just fine. |
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Multimonitor functionality is, however, a must. Think laptop as a presentation |
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tool. So I wonder how kernel will deal with two different resolutions on |
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separate pipes, whether one can force it to a specific mode (which sometimes |
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needed with this bloody projectors), I mean all this xrandr type mode-related |
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functionality. Hopefully this is all well though through and there will be no |
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extended period when it somehow does not work. |