Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 02:07:40 -0500 From: Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net> To: Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Use VGA connector on FreeBSD Message-ID: <426DE8BC.5030301@pldrouin.net> In-Reply-To: <HPE5Bwezx1Q891xNbPD2iQ.md5@[10.0.0.123]> References: <426DE3F3.2030709@pldrouin.net> <HPE5Bwezx1Q891xNbPD2iQ.md5@[10.0.0.123]>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?426DE8BC.5030301>