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From: Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net>
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Subject: Re: Use VGA connector on FreeBSD
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Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:

> Pierre-Luc Drouin writes:
>
>> I would like to buy a laptop and I would like to know if this is 
>> usually possible to use the external VGA connector on FreeBSD.
>
>
> It is. That's not OS-dependent.
>
> FreeBSD probably cannot switch output destination, but the magic key 
> on the keyboard can (Fn-F10 on my laptop).
>
> Arnt
>
ok thanks. I had heard of some people unable to use projectors with 
Linux (while it worked on Windows) so I thought it could depend on the 
OS. I had also read that we have to edit de X config file and add the 
configuration parameters for the external monitor/projector so I thought 
the X11 driver had something to do with it.