[Question] vesa driver with RandR 1.2

[Alex Deucher]

On 4/10/09, Kan-I Jyo <cecilhsujp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
>  I am currently using xserver-xorg-video-vesa 1.3.0 along with
>  xrandr 1.2 on one of my laptop.
>
>  It is to my curiosity that is there any support on RandR in vesa
>  driver since it seems to fail detecting an external monitor.
>
>  I have taken a look on the git tree of vesa driver and it seems
>  that support for RandR 1.2 is on the TODO list.
>
>  http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-vesa/tree/src/vesa.c
>
>  <vesa.c>
>  ... snip ...
>  /*
>   * TODO:
>   * - PanelID might give us useful size hints.
>   * - Port to RANDR 1.2 setup to make mode selection slightly better
>   * - Port to RANDR 1.2 to drop the old-school DGA junk
>   * - VBE/SCI for secondary DDC method?
>   */
>  ... snip ...
>
>
>  Is there any means to use the external monitor with vesa driver?

If you boot with your laptop lid closed, you can probably get the
external display to work with vesa.  Multi-head is not really possible
with vesa.   If you want multi-head or the ability to switch outputs,
use a native driver for your hardware.

Alex