Re: Dual-LVDS Acer Iconia laptop

Re: Dual-LVDS Acer Iconia laptop

[Baptiste Jonglez]

Cc-ing to intel-gfx@

On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 06:48:17PM +0100, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I've seen on the list that some of you (as we were) have troubles with
> the second screen on the iconia laptop.
> 
> In our lab, we managed to make it work by using two patches:
> * http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/rNRcWX4nB2U5uRmbLm9h (LVDS are
> digital as well), this solved the "xrandr disconnected" issue
> * a small patch we are finalizing to call the right DMI function to
> light up the second LCD.

Awesome, thank you! It's quite frustrating to see that this patch was written
almost 6 months ago then forgotten...

It's already compiling, let's see if it works :)

> So, as soon as we have clean this code, this bug will be solved.

This first patch seems indeed based on an old tree, it requires some
small changes to apply.

> Cheers,
> Benjamin
> 
> PS: I'm sorry to start a new thread as I just registered myself on the
> list and was not able to get the previous Message-ID.

No problem, I'll post on the original thread for the record.

Thank you again,
Baptiste