rui.zhang at intel
Dec 21, 2007, 11:53 PM
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Re: video breaks asus-laptop display switching
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On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 06:36 +0800, Andrei Gaponenko wrote:
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> Hi,
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> With 2.6.23 or newer (including 2.6.24-rc6) kernels, writing to the
> /sys/devices/platform/asus-laptop/display file does not do anything:
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> Cold boot to single user, then connect an external monitor
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> # cat /sys/devices/platform/asus-laptop/display
> 1
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> OK, only the built in LCD is enabled. Try to enable
> the external monitor as well:
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> # echo 3 > /sys/devices/platform/asus-laptop/display
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> still no image on the external.
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> # cat /sys/devices/platform/asus-laptop/display
> 1
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> Still "1", not the "3" we wrote. On the other hand if I boot with an
> external monitor attached, the "display" file always contains 3, even
> after writing 1 there, and there is image on both monitors.
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> In 2.6.22 I had to load asus-laptop by hand, but then display
> switching worked nicely.
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> I've noticed that if I do
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> # rmmod video
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> display switching starts working again with the newer kernels.
> The "video" module was auto-loaded on my system in 2.6.22, but
> did not cause the conflict.
hmm, please "echo 1 > /proc/acpi/video/xxx/DOS" in 2.6.23 and see
if there is any difference.
Thansk,
Rui
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