Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor recognition at boot time

2007-07-05 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
What I do is maintain two xorg.conf files: xorg.conf.home xorg.conf.work. Hm... that's what I wanted to avoid, since it's usually a PITA to maintain multiple instances of a config (I'm already doing this with sendmail...). Then I do not start X during startup. Instead I log into the console

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor recognition at boot time

2007-07-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote: I would really like to automate this process - that's why I woul really like to be able to acquire the EDID or something similar (model specs or just a unique binary value) at boot time, so I can invoke an appropriate script during system init. $ eix edid *

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor recognition at boot time

2007-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 14:37:02 +0200, Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote: Yes, that's pretty close to what I'm doing right at the moment. But I would really like to automate this process - that's why I woul really like to be able to acquire the EDID or something similar (model specs or just a unique

[gentoo-user] Monitor recognition at boot time

2007-07-03 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
Hello folks, I was wondering whether some of you could have any ideas about how to identify a certain monitor plugged into my card's secondary output at boot time (before X starts) automatically. The situation is the following: I have a laptop (Samsung R65) with an nVdidia GeForce Go 7400

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor recognition at boot time

2007-07-03 Thread Roy Wright
Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote: The problem is however, that at work the external CRT is _left of_ my laptop, and at home the external (DFP) is _right of_ my laptop. So I would love to be able to manipulate xorg.conf with a script at boot time. What I do is maintain two xorg.conf files: