Comment 9 for bug 42731

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Andy Toulouse (abject-resignation) wrote : Re: [Bug 42731] Re: MULTIHEAD SUPPORT META BUG

I don't have a launchpad account, I don't know why I'm "a direct
subscriber of a duplicate bug," and I don't want these emails!
On Apr 24, 2007, at 8:07 AM, james wrote:

> This metabug is _not_ strictly a duplicate of Bug #96498.
> Specifically
> in the context of booting Ubuntu from the live CD, let us suppose that
> we do not care if the dual head display is correctly configured.
> Instead, we suppose that the user simply wants _a_ display, as opposed
> to a "black" screen, this being the difference between an "immediately
> usable" and "not immediately unusable" system, and assuming that the
> text-mode virtual-terminals are still running successfully, as was
> _not_
> the case in one of the beta CDs, in which case the situation is even
> worse. To achieve this, the configuration script simply needs to
> distinguish the "currently in use" video card from the "not
> currently in
> use" video card, and then continue to configure a "single head"
> system,
> as normal. So the question is: Is there an easy way to distinguish
> which video card is "currently in use"?
>
> --
> MULTIHEAD SUPPORT META BUG
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/42731
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