Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VGA output?
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: How are you guys getting your laptops to do VGA output? My system functions fine without an xorg.conf right now. Do I need to create one if I want VGA output? - Grant Actually it works great after a reboot. Is there a better method for switching VGA output on and off than plug/unplug + reboot? Depending on the driver you are dealing with, regular old xrandr from the command-line should do the trick (or a wrapper app like krandrtray that Nikos suggested) HTH- James (A) ;)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VGA output?
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 11/04/2009 07:47 PM, Grant wrote: How are you guys getting your laptops to do VGA output? My system functions fine without an xorg.conf right now. Do I need to create one if I want VGA output? - Grant Actually it works great after a reboot. Is there a better method for switching VGA output on and off than plug/unplug + reboot? Might be a shot in the dark, but try krandrtray (it's a KDE app though.) You should get something like this: http://i36.tinypic.com/a1rgqu.png I don't have a second monitor to connect so I can't try, but perhaps it will allow you to enable output to it once you connect it. lxrandr is a bit lighter, standalone capable, but part of the lxde desktop suite. Their wiki page for it: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXRandr Odd timing to run across the question, too, since I just realized I'd missed that one on my laptop build here. [ebuild N] lxde-base/lxrandr-0.1.1 193 kB And if you get an error: Unable to get monitor information! Rebuild xrandr. Found that answer in the forum thread below: http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=8t=639 Of course, if you're one for more power over simplicity of use, xrandr itself is more than capable, the rest are just frontends, really. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VGA output?
James Ausmus wrote: On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com mailto:emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: How are you guys getting your laptops to do VGA output? My system functions fine without an xorg.conf right now. Do I need to create one if I want VGA output? - Grant Actually it works great after a reboot. Is there a better method for switching VGA output on and off than plug/unplug + reboot? Depending on the driver you are dealing with, regular old xrandr from the command-line should do the trick (or a wrapper app like krandrtray that Nikos suggested) HTH- James (A) ;) I use xrandr and do have an xorg.conf; some info I used in the past http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2 Typically I use my laptop on a port replicator attached to a VGA. I use windowmaker; after a switch from laptop monitor to vga or vice-versa, I need to restart wm; all through the command-line. -- Valmor
