On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 22:48 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Hello, > > What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected to a > laptop during boot or when just using a plain console without an X > server running? Before a recent update the output would just > automatically go to an external monitor when one is connected. Now it > does not; not sure it has anything to do with the openrc migration. >
I think it largely depends on the particular hardware config. For my laptop it's a BIOS option. If you are using KMS however it seems to want to drive all outputs with a monitor attached.
