Mark Vojkovich <mvojkovi@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Zack Weinberg wrote: > >> >> I am experiencing two problems with the display on my laptop. >> >> 1) Most seriously, when the X server is in control, the display out >> the external video port and/or the docking interface is total >> garbage: a static pattern of vertical blue and green lines. The >> external video works fine in VGA text mode. > > The "nv" driver that comes with XFree86 does not support > hotkey switching. It will only work on the display that it > booted to. Anything working beyond that is accidental. Hotkey switching isn't involved; this happens even when the BIOS is set to "display the same thing on both the LCD and the external port" and then the X server is started. > This is expected behavior. The X-server doesn't know anything > about ACPI power management events and doesn't know when it needs > to clean up after them. You might find that NVIDIA's binary drivers > work better in this regard, since they have a kernel module that > tries to deal with this somewhat. I'm using APM, not ACPI, but I can see how there might be the same problem. Are there any future plans to improve this situation? zw _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
