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
> 
> 
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