Yo! As promised: I tried the patch (see bug report), and the problem is indeed fixed.
The only thing is that the fix seems to be more of a kludge (hardcoded
value, switching of i2c)...
Also, it seems that this patch switches the monitor id's - I had to
physically switch the connectors, no xorg.conf editing I tried could switch
the displays logically. No big deal, though: no ugly kludge at start up
anymore to get the 2nd head running. Yay!
xawtv still works as before, happily (this has been a problem every now and
then.)
totem, vlc, noatun et al apparently have problems deciding on which screens
the frames should be displayed, and appear to randomly push a few frames to
one screen, then to the other one, particularly in full screen mode. Might
be related to the location of the mouse pointer and/or the window focus.
As with xawtv, this behaviour has not altered, though.
cheers
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Alex Buell:
Or how about a Penguin logo painted in really really trippy
colours, and emblazoned with the word LSD. :o)
Geert Uytterhoeven:
We already had that one, but unfortunately Russell King fixed that nasty
palette bug in drivers/video/fbcon.c :-)
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