The documentation of the indirect mode is quite hard for me to understand and/or the indirect mode does not work properly for me:
What are the advantages/disadavantages of direct/indirect mode? Do you need to use indirect mode for a multi montor setup, or is it also possible with direct mode?
The parameter vgt_monitor_config_file is apparently not working; I can set for example:
vgt_monitor_config_file=’/path/to/nonexistent/file.config’
without an error message despite of having set xen_vgt.propagate_monitor_to_guest=0
The commands 1-4 to plug in the virtual display do not work for me (1+3 write error, 2+4 do not change the files' contents)
the contents of monitor.config are unclear for me:
what is meant by
first bit 1 for text mode, and second bit 2 for number of ports in the config
11
and are the EDIDs in monitor.config arbitrary?
How to get the EDID?
using
cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-$_port_type-1/edid
gives me an EDID with special characters including linebreaks. How do you let them be interpreted as one piece by bash?
The documentation of the indirect mode is quite hard for me to understand and/or the indirect mode does not work properly for me:
first bit 1 for text mode, and second bit 2 for number of ports in the config
11 and are the EDIDs in monitor.config arbitrary?