From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Apr 17 7:57:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from spork.cs.unm.edu (mail.cs.unm.edu [198.59.151.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F3E637B886 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 07:57:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from colinj@unm.edu) Received: from onion.cs.unm.edu ([198.59.151.178] helo=unm.edu) by spork.cs.unm.edu with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #3) id 12hCx2-0002H4-00; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 08:56:36 -0600 Message-ID: <38FB2651.91EF2D00@unm.edu> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 08:57:21 -0600 From: Colin Eric Johnson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ross A Lippert Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: second laptop monitor References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ross A Lippert wrote: > > Does freebsd currently support the use of the extra monitor port that > some laptops have? I've noticed that under windows I can plug a > monitor into this port and the monitor will reproduce whatever is on > the laptop display. I'd really like to be able to do this with > freebsd. I've found that this is really more of an issue with X (XFree) and not FreeBSD. The function keys for switching displays work fine. X, on the other hand, doesn't play nice all of the time when I switch the display. When I don't have X running switching between the LCD and an external monitor works great. Once I have the external monitor running I'll run X and all is well. -- Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/ "As Jun [Murai] explains it, `I can go to the bar and drink beer. I go to a phone and ping my routers, and if they are still working, I go back and drink more beer.'" Carl Malamud _Exploring_the_Internet_ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message