On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 14:28 +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote: > Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Restart?!?!?! > > Shouldn't Zap (Ctrl-Alt-BS) or Logout work? > > It probably should, but it doesn't. > > > I can't remember ever having to restart the machine in-order to change > > something in X's configuration... (including driver.ko and X.org version > > updates) > > Welcome to laptops with ATI graphics. X often can't figure out how to > turn on an output if the BIOS hasn't done it already. If you boot > without the projector plugged in, the BIOS turns the VGA output off, > and that's the end of that story. OK. I understand. > > Hopefully ATI's new-found commitment to free software will help. Yep. Without the specs I doubt that OSS drivers will be able to reverse engineer the BIOS switches required to turn on the external DAC. - Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
