> > As I said, it was quite the rough ride. But that was nearing the end of > April, and things have been better since. Hopefully Radeon won't be > quite as bad. We'll see I guess.
I am with Intel laptop since last September and passed through all of that. It actually was not that bad, aspecially given that I don't need 3D functionality much (although I tried to keep it in best working state) > > As for the last question, the example of external display mode, at > minimum, it shouldn't regress (except for temporary regressions of the > type Keith explained in his blog). The xorg folks have put an enormous > amount of work into hotplug, and they won't be letting that go just for > this. I'm not entirely sure on this, but from my understanding, X will > still be in control of the modes. It'll simply use the kernel's EDID/DDC > detection instead of its own to see what modes are there (and whether any > additional modes as configured will work within the detected card and > monitor parameters) and to do the actual mode switches, but it'll be > telling the kernel what mode to use, tho the default will be native/ > primary mode for both the CLI/text framebuffer and X initially, thus no > mode change switching between them. Interestingly, I don't care much about VT switching (well, no flickering is nice, but I switch perhaps once every few days), nor security (I use X for 16 years already from the epoch of X-terminals, and never really heard of any specific case when X was used to break in mind doing any damage, again its nice to be safer, but overall it seems like red herring) nor that much about framebuffer resolution because I got may native 1440x900 from vesafb just fine. Multimonitor functionality is, however, a must. Think laptop as a presentation tool. So I wonder how kernel will deal with two different resolutions on separate pipes, whether one can force it to a specific mode (which sometimes needed with this bloody projectors), I mean all this xrandr type mode-related functionality. Hopefully this is all well though through and there will be no extended period when it somehow does not work.
