From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 26 06:55:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E113916A401 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:55:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kst@eltex.net) Received: from office.oilspace.com (ns2.oilspace.com [194.129.65.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A31C43D45 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:55:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kst@eltex.net) Received: from kst.mow.oilspace.com (infra-gw.oilspace.com [81.222.156.2]) (using SSLv3 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by office.oilspace.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5937B136CD7; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:55:01 +0100 (BST) From: Konstantin Stepanenkov To: Par Leijonhufvud In-Reply-To: <20060426064545.GH5914@absaroka.hunter-gatherer.org> References: <20060426064545.GH5914@absaroka.hunter-gatherer.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:53:46 +0400 Message-Id: <1146034426.909.77.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: External monitors/projector X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:55:04 -0000 Par, On my T23 I can press Fn+F7 to choose output destination. It cycles between "use laptop screen", "use external monitor" and "use both at the same time". This is done on hardware level, so not depended to what operating system you use. I believe you should have the same feature on your laptop. Regards, kst. On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 08:45 +0200, Par Leijonhufvud wrote: > I have a IBM Thinkpad R50e with 5.3 and x-org. Sometimes I want to use > a projector as a secondary monitor (mostly with beamer style > presentations). I haven't been able to find any good pointers on how to > get it to use the external monitor/projector properly. Any suggestions? > > Ideal would be having the option of either have the screen and the > external monitor/projector show the same things _or_ being treated as > separate entities... -- Konstantin Stepanenkov, KST7-RIPE, ph: +1 253 397 1368