From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 9 03:09:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CDCE106564A for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 03:09:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CA408FC12 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 03:09:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 3so1854208qwe.7 for ; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:09:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=uR89zsjNRzzUIg3e0MXBhLmPMhkkg6yjlvzaKnt12Sw=; b=Ny4f95O2rruYBwQZw8YA6NxwyQxdJPraOIXMRtIGqA/mQv/EIe6bUULdKE7XplTfy6 pLHb4mQI03bDHhNnK5zExEu8bgEP17u9L2HG84DjOLb/ziLAgbTGYuUCWDp2bwteUDjj L7wKT4/fpbwIBk1YO7AbD9PQB1P4kQ5Mj1CCc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fc48sl8yvES0gY2qO1DqBHW1jmFo1rxeGikSTFffuZk/hy6nr0amaI8ekidImO+ruT 7U6PCzdjqhMV8k2GacDJJV71BSFPBFE2oVjAjDr+vFriQRjGcRuJ3blwENk6JmtVnGJg yB8bvV++/kxUJKI+wBvupY6qMTvvu365z04Xs= Received: by 10.224.45.193 with SMTP id g1mr7562536qaf.247.1244516965401; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:09:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.istudentunion.com (ool-44c0cd7a.dyn.optonline.net [68.192.205.122]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 8sm182942qwj.14.2009.06.08.20.09.24 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:09:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A2DD262.2030909@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:09:22 +0000 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090606) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Judd References: <4A2DA11E.80508@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting aux display on laptop to be the only display X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:09:26 -0000 Tim Judd wrote: > Laptop VGA cards are only two types: independently driven, or > mirrored. The former is what allows the internal and external to > display different things simultaneously. The latter is a 1:1 mirror > image on one and other. All laptops I've seen when the external VGA > is enabled are mirrored. Via VGA driver functions, you can make them > independent. > > My guess for what you need is xrandr, to which I'm not very well > versed. It seems to be "the answer" when it comes to video output > layout, size, orientation... swiss army knife. > That did the trick for anyone else with the same setup put this in any of your personal rc's like .xsession: xrander --output LCVDS --off --output VGA --auto > I'm welcome to corrections and learning myself, but I would shoot for > VGA driver and/or xrandr tweaking first. > > On 6/8/09, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > >> I have following hardware on my laptop: >> >> > dmesg|grep vga >> vgapci0: port 0x6110-0x6117 mem >> 0x90000000-0x903fffff,0x80000000-0x8fffffff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0 >> agp0: on vgapci0 >> vgapci1: mem 0x94500000-0x945fffff at device >> 2.1 on pci0 >> vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 >> drm0: on vgapci0 >> vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster >> >> and I have an extrtnal 21" widescreen (vga) that when I hook it up the >> default x11.config has it at 1024x768 on *BOTH* monitors.... How do >> I make it so X only considers the external (if attached) monitor? >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > >