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| author | Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> | 2013-07-03 12:59:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> | 2013-07-03 13:05:49 +0100 |
| commit | 1445a62da8a08acd8a732176d085fd098f68cec3 (patch) | |
| tree | 02e9a070a11e5b75ff56e1bfd8a3ce1a1eb45351 /man | |
| parent | 2ecff61d369d9f67c6e28d407941f35ed6195156 (diff) | |
intel: Add an option for forced rediscovery of output status on startup
Specifying
Section "Device"
Option "ReprobeOutputs" "true"
EndSection
will restore the old behaviour of scanning each output on startup and
picking a spanning mode.
The behaviour was changed in
commit 8a6a21bff86100144ba7960fc32a299ac54ada83 [2.21.11]
Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date: Wed Jun 26 13:29:48 2013 +0100
sna: Use the existing configuration for initial modes
Please do notify us of any circumstances that force you to use this
flag.
References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66494
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/intel.man | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/intel.man b/man/intel.man index fbd0230a..9e19687b 100644 --- a/man/intel.man +++ b/man/intel.man @@ -134,6 +134,19 @@ disable render acceleration and only use the BLT engine. .IP Default: use UXA (render acceleration) .TP +.BI "Option \*qReprobeOutputs\*q \*q" boolean \*q +Disable or enable rediscovery of connected displays during server startup. +As the kernel driver loads it scans for connected displays and configures a +console spanning those outputs. When the X server starts, we then take the +list of connected displays and framebuffer layout and use that for the +initial configuration. Sometimes, not all displays are correctly detected by +the kernel and so it is useful in a few circumstances for X to force the +kernel to reprobe all displays when it starts. To make the X server recheck +the status of connected displays, set the \*qReprobeOutputs\*q option to true. +Please do file a bug for any circumstances which require this workaround. +.IP +Default: reprobing is disabled for a faster startup. +.TP .BI "Option \*qVideoKey\*q \*q" integer \*q This is the same as the .B \*qColorKey\*q |