From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Sep 30 21:36:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA15304 for mobile-outgoing; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 21:36:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA15298 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 21:36:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id OAA14574; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 14:06:08 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19971001140607.58540@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 14:06:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Brian N. Handy" Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: External Monitors? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Brian N. Handy on Tue, Sep 30, 1997 at 09:16:49PM -0700 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Sep 30, 1997 at 09:16:49PM -0700, Brian N. Handy wrote: > Has anyone listening here actually hooked an external monitor up to their > laptop under FreeBSD? Yes. I do it all over the place with whatever monitor I manage to extricate from a Microsoft environment. > I'm sort of hung right now and I'm wondering if anyone has any > XF86Config data on something like this. Somebody's collecting this stuff. I lost the URL, but I should follow up. In general, I have to settle for 1024x768, since most laptops won't go any higher, and that's pretty straightforward. About the only thing I have to tweak is the horizontal frequency. Just about any monitor will do 36 kHz, and that's enough for 1024x768 in interlace mode. Greg