From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 26 11:57:50 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2175316A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:57:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8927143D31 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:57:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3QBvmmN039366; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 06:57:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <426E2C88.40900@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 06:56:56 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050325 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pierre-Luc Drouin References: <426DE3F3.2030709@pldrouin.net> <426DE8BC.5030301@pldrouin.net> In-Reply-To: <426DE8BC.5030301@pldrouin.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/853/Mon Apr 25 14:22:22 2005 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: Arnt Gulbrandsen cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Use VGA connector on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:57:50 -0000 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. You can have multiple x.org (or XFree86) config files, and then load the appropriate one when you start X. I believe you can also have one config file, and have two setups in it for screens, and then choose which one to use when you start X. People use that feature for dual screen capabilities. I have a Dell D610, and I have used the external VGA a few times. You can set a different resolution for it too if you want. Also - the acpi_video module does allow you to turn on/off the different video ports it finds. Mine sees all three (VGA, LCD, Svideo). Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------