Hello Andrew, On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 1:27 PM Andrew Ball <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Riza, > > RD> I have an LCD monitor that i can connect via vga port. Can i use > > this monitor as the only monitor? Do not need to use the laptop > > monitor. This way i can reduce the brightness on the monitor. > > If you close the lid on your laptop, does the external monitor > become the only one? It's a while since I used NetBSD's X11, so I do > not know whether it is able to adapt on the fly to a change in > configuration like that.
No, unfortunately not. The monitor is not getting any video input. In the dmesg it seems there are two genfb devices. Here is the output of dmesg. [ 1.017264] genfb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0: vendor 1002 product 1309 (rev. 0x00) [ 1.017264] genfb0: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, size 1366x768, depth 32, stride 5632 [ 1.017264] genfb0: shadow framebuffer enabled, size 4224 KB [ 1.017264] wsdisplay0 at genfb0 kbdmux 1: console (default, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0 [ 1.017264] drm at genfb0 not configured [ 1.017264] genfb1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: vendor 1002 product 6604 (rev. 0x00) There is the genfb for pci1, which I assume is the vga port output of the laptop. But I might be wrong. > > Out of interest, does your monitor only have a VGA input? I would > usually use HMDI or miniDisplayPort, given the chance. The monitor does not have any HDMI input. Only VGA. > > -Andy Ball Riza
