On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 03:04, Paul Kaplan wrote: > I set up 9.2 on an IBM T40, which has an ATI Radeon 7500 and in internal LCD > at 1024x768. At the time I set it up, I had an external keyboard (with a > built-in trackpoint AND trackpad), mouse and 1280x1024 monitor attached > through a port replicator. Setup correctly detected and configured the > external devices. > > However, when I boot the machine without being attached to the port > replicator, X still presents the 1280x1024 desktop (only the upper-right > 1024x768 pixels) and the internal pointing devices (a trackpoint and a > trackpad) are non-responsive.
how annoying. You'll need to add the extra pointing devices to XF86Config4 manually. Not sure how to do the screen size properly, but a workaround would be to do CTRL-ALT-[keypad-minus] to cycle to a lower resolution. This is not fun on a laptop keyboard (hint: numlock on, semicolon). > > How do I configure X (4.3) so that it autodetects whether the external monitor > and pointing devices are attached and sets the video output appropriately? > > TIA > Paul > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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