On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 13:26 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > I was invited to a Computer club this evening. Most of those coming > there are using Windows or OSX. I'd like to show them that Linux, when > it comes to connecting devices to a computer, will do automagically > many things like Windows or OSX does -- USB Plug'n Play, e.g., *most* > of the time seems to work relatively well. > > But I wonder if there's a tool that let's us connect a second monitor > or beamer to an alubook5,8 without having to rewrite xorg.conf. > Impossible, so far - correct?
Not necessarily. If you configure MergedFB, that should get automatically disabled when no external display is detected. Detection will only occur on X server startup though. Full display hotplug is being developed now and will hopefully land in X.Org 7.2 or 7.3. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
