Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:53:45 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> To: Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Use VGA connector on FreeBSD Message-ID: <426DE579.5040606@ultra-secure.de> In-Reply-To: <426DE8BC.5030301@pldrouin.net> References: <426DE3F3.2030709@pldrouin.net> <HPE5Bwezx1Q891xNbPD2iQ.md5@[10.0.0.123]> <426DE8BC.5030301@pldrouin.net>
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Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > 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. If your projector can only do XGA (1024x768) and your display can do more (mine does SGXA+, 1440x1050) you've got to switch to a lower resolution. If there a tool that allows normal, non-root users to switch to different resolutions? I can easily have two copies of XF86config and swap them as root, but a secure way for doing that as non-root would be good. cheers, Rainer
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