On Maw, 2004-11-30 at 18:23, Jim Gettys wrote:
David,
I agree with you and Kristian and I have started work, specifically on the input system side to do exactly what you suggest. Similar work ought to be done someday for the screens themselves (hotplug being a reality even for screens; today with PCMCIA and PCI express is just beginning to ship).
Mobility Electronics have been shipping cardbus hotplug video for about 5 or 6 years now (E1000V). They make fun toys for this sort of testing and are cheap on ebay generally 8)
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 19:44 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
Mobility Electronics have been shipping cardbus hotplug video for about 5 or 6 years now (E1000V). They make fun toys for this sort of testing and are cheap on ebay generally 8)
Hotplug of displays is way more common than that; consider the laptop case, where you want to sometimes plug in a projector and just mirror the main display (which mostly works now) but sometimes you want to plug in a second monitor for extra screen real estate and expand your desktop onto it, and most of the time you just have the laptop display. At least I haven't found a way to do the switch without an X restart but I guess I might have missed something (can RandR help with this simple case)?
Of course, if the general hotplug case is taken care of, reconfiguration of a graphics card on the fly will probably basically be solved automatically as part of that so that's definitely the real solution; however, some work and testing might be possible even without somewhat exotic hardware.
/Per
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:25:54PM -0800, Per Bjornsson wrote:
Hotplug of displays is way more common than that; consider the laptop case, where you want to sometimes plug in a projector and just mirror the main display (which mostly works now) but sometimes you want to plug
This is a hotplug video card rather than hotplug video ports. Its a cardbus bridge with an ATI rage based device behind it.
Alan
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