On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Jonathan Berry wrote: > On 1/11/06, JT Moree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Here's a question... How do I control which monitor is > > > primary? I want the laptop lcd to be primary, but so > > > far haven't figured that out. > > > > depends on what you mean by primary. You can change the order of the > > devices in some configs but that probably wont do anything and can > > always change the leftOf, rightOf, clone etc. settings. > > > > In reality the CRT always becomes the primary display when it is plugged > > in. That's hardcoded in the NVIDIA driver. > > Huh? Are you sure? It is not this way for the Windows driver at > least, I know that much. The default there is to have the LCD be the > primary monitor. I have not played with dual displays on Linux, > though.
I have and it does not work that way. First of all, it helps to have everything plugged in when you start the machine. This is because the chipset uses that physical connection to figure out which of the outputs it is using. (svga, s-video, media connector, etc.) Use fn-f4 to direct the output to the various devices. First time will be external output only, then dual output. (In my experience, these need to be done before the X server starts.) It does not require extra settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. -- "George W. Bush -- Bringing back the Sixties one Nixon at a time." _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
