xrandr doesn't unclone CRTCs...

[Matthias Hopf]

On Nov 08, 07 16:12:38 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2007 3:52 PM, Matthias Hopf <mhopf at suse.de> wrote:
> > It seems that my first patch doesn't address all issues. Find another
> > patch attached that improves things even more.
> >
> > Apparently pick_crtcs_score() didn't set up crtcs references correctly
> > if anything but the last output resulted in the best score.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure that there is another bug lurking around that will make
> > reuse of crtcs difficult, but it will only show up on configurations
> > with more than 2 outputs active at the same time. Maybe even only on
> > configurations with more than 2 crtcs, and I don't think we have such
> > beasts with RandR support available yet.
> 
> FWIW, I ran into similar issues when I was writing clone support for
> radeon.  On many laptops you have 4 outputs (LVDS, DVI, VGA, tv-out)
> that can be cloned in various configurations.  Cloning worked when the
> xserver came up or if you hard-coded the crtc mappings, but xrandr
> --auto failed.  I had suspected xrandr at the time as well, but never
> got the chance to debug it.  I'll hopefully be able to give your patch
> a try later this week.

I'm just debugging another issue that is lying deeper in modes/. You'll
probably want to to take a look at that as well, I'll publish another
patch when I'm done.

Thanks

Matthias

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