Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:26:43 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Initial RandR set-up Message-ID: <20090209192643.B71FD1CC27@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:16:44 EST." <1234207004.1524.6.camel@ferret.2hip.net>
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> From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> > Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:16:44 -0500 > > On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 10:40 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > In these days of xrandr, is there a good, standard way to do the initial > > set-up of the display? I currently have a script to do "xrandr --output > > VGA2 --right-of VGA1" and, in one case, set the resolution of the second > > display. I'd like to know the best way to kick this off as early as > > possible in the startup of X. > > Currently, this is probably the best way to deal with it. > > If you use gnome, 2.24's display manager tool will handle it, though it > still has some issues. The intel 965 laptop that I was using needed to > disable LVDS before it could enable both external displays and that > didn't seem to work quite right. It tried to do the right thing, but I > still had to mess with the display settings a bit to use the second > external display. I didn't get around to looking at the code to fix it > though. Robert, Thanks! I was totally unaware of the display manager tool. I just played with it for a bit and it seems to work quite well. I'll play some more to make sure that it really does what I need when I get a bit more time. (I have an nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX. Not my choice, but I as not asked.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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