brainstorming for UDS-N - Graphics

[Bryce Harrington]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 02:46:39AM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 09:53:00PM -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> > On Friday, October 01, 2010 04:43:27 pm Stéphane Graber wrote:
> > > In an idea world, whenever I first plug a device I'd get prompted to
> > > either:
> > > 1) Ignore it
> > > 2) Configure it (through gnome-display-properties)
> > 
> > Ubuntu doesn't do that? *boggle*
> 
> Ubuntu autoconfigures it with no user interaction, as soon as it detects
> that a monitor appeared.
> 
> Since monitor autodetection doesn't work on my hardware (intel video;
> could be that polling is just disabled to save power by default), this
> happens as soon as I *launch* gnome-display-properties, which I then
> close without changing anything.

That's just a bug.  You need this patch (which only hit mainline
yesterday):

  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2010-October/008286.html

It's a driver-specific implementation thing.  There isn't really any
work we need to do, it'll become available next time we update to newest
X.org bits.

Unless someone from the community is interested in doing work in this
area, I don't think we need UDS discussion on this.

Bryce