Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:21:03 +0100 From: Vince Hoffman <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: Kemian Dang <dangkm@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to use a external monitor on FB7/Gnome Message-ID: <4811F6DF.8030202@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <82f916c90804250734h6ca7d321haaa206b4dccc7752@mail.gmail.com> References: <82f916c90804250734h6ca7d321haaa206b4dccc7752@mail.gmail.com>
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Kemian Dang wrote: > Dear All, > > I use a laptop with Freebsd 7.0 stable and Gnome 2.22, the graphic card is > integrated nvidia go 6150. > I want to use a external monitor to support my work, but I find it gave no > display when I plug the monitor, with the Fn + f4 key(this works in > winodws). > Seems no related topics in hand book / mailing list, so anyone could give > some clue? > Its something I havent got round to using properly yet, but xrandr is your friend here. start with xrandr -q to find out what xwindows can see about your external monitor, then try xrandr --auto if that doesnt get it working, read the man page for more explicit options. Vince
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