Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753255Ab2FHWXi (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2012 18:23:38 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f178.google.com ([209.85.212.178]:39822 "EHLO mail-wi0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757598Ab2FHWXg (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2012 18:23:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1339193608_596134@CP5-2952> References: <1339193608_596134@CP5-2952> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 15:23:15 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: C29cD-oIk0irDspwJMSr28-N4-o Message-ID: Subject: Re: [git pull] drm intel + exynos fixes To: Chris Wilson Cc: Dave Airlie , Daniel Vetter , DRI mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1616 Lines: 33 On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Chris Wilson wrote: > > So it falls back to > load-detection, which in your case it cannot do since all the available > pipes are assigned and so it just reports the VGA connection as unknown. Btw, it's a singularly stupid decision to say "Ok, I *know* I have a monitor on output X, and I have no clue what-so-ever what I have on output Y, and no indication there is anything even there, so let me just degrade the output on output Y just in case". Which is basically what you are arguing for. In addition to the idiotic of argument that "ok, it used to work right, but we broke it on *purpose*, really". I'd suggest that if you see no other connectors at all, *then* you might say "ok, let's assume that we have a VGA monitor behind a broken KVM switch". At that point, at least that assumption doesn't make things worse for anything else that you know is there. And if people have truly undetectable VGA hardware in addition to another (detectable) output, I would suggest that you tell them to force it with xrandr. Again, there's no way in hell I will accept the idiotic argument that my old working single-monitor setup should be broken because the i915 driver decided that I *might* have a second monitor on VGA despite everything else saying that is not the case. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/