Description of problem: On a laptop with a Mach64 chip, switching between internal/external/both video outputs does not work (used to work under RH7 and RH8). Neither via the keyboard function key nor an external utility (atitvout, http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/atitvout/ ). Both keyboard and "atitvout" do work on the virtual console, even with XFree86 running on a different console. "atitvout" claims to use ATI VBE calls (and the keyboard probably uses BIOS calls as well, so perhaps this comes from XFree86 disabling such calls? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ rpm -q XFree86 XFree86-4.3.0-37 (--) ATI(0): ATI 3D Rage Mobility graphics controller detected. (--) ATI(0): Chip type 4C52 "LR", version 4, foundry TSMC, class 0, revision x01. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. hitting <Fn>-F10 or running "atitvout l; atitvout c; atitvout lc" Actual results: Keyboard: Nothing happens. $ sudo ./atitvout c VBE call failed. Expected results: Keyboard: Display should cycle through the available outputs atitvout: Display should go to the selected device, if attached. Additional info: RFE: it would be very nice if different screen resolutions could be specified for internal/external, and if the XFree86 server would get a RANDR event on switching, to make full use of the external display capabilities.
>On a laptop with a Mach64 chip, switching between internal/external/both video >outputs does not work (used to work under RH7 and RH8). Neither via the keyboard >function key nor an external utility (atitvout, >http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/atitvout/ >). Neither method is supported. The Mach64 driver is provided as-is, and we do not support atitvout, GATOS, or any other software that doesn't come with the distribution. Please contact the atitvout authors if you have problems while using their utility. The functionality provided by special laptop keystrokes to switch between screens is done by the BIOS itself. XFree86 is not involved. That is also not supported. If you believe this to be due to a bug in XFree86 or in the XFree86 "ati" driver for Mach64, please report it to the XFree86 project at http://bugs.xfree86.org so that the driver maintainer can investigate the matter and determine a resolution. Closing as NOTABUG as we do not support configurations which use software we do not supply which interferes with the video hardware, and may conflict with the running XFree86 server.