Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring external monitor

2012-02-21 Thread Bryan N Iotti
: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring external monitor The last time I did something like that, I need to be root (or equivalent) ... did you do that? HTH Michael On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 21:28, Mark Creamer white...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Thinkpad T510 on which almost everything seems

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring external monitor

2012-02-21 Thread Thorsten Heit
Hi, It might not be very useful for a laptop, because when it says save to file, you really are supposed to save it to Xorg.conf and then move it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and reboot. Why reboot? It's enough to simply move/copy the saved file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, logout and let the X server

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring external monitor

2012-02-21 Thread Bryan N Iotti
openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring external monitor Hi, It might not be very useful for a laptop, because when it says save to file, you really are supposed to save it to Xorg.conf and then move it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and reboot. Why reboot

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring external monitor

2012-02-21 Thread Mark Creamer
-To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring external monitor Hi, It might not be very useful for a laptop, because when it says save to file, you really are supposed to save it to Xorg.conf and then move it to /etc/X11

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring external monitor

2012-02-20 Thread Mark Creamer
I have a Thinkpad T510 on which almost everything seems to be working properly (oi_151a with all current updates). The only issue I can't seem to get resolved is making the external monitor to work. If I open the NVidia configuration tool, I can see the monitor, but it shows disabled. If I enable

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring external monitor

2012-02-20 Thread Michael Schuster
The last time I did something like that, I need to be root (or equivalent) ... did you do that? HTH Michael On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 21:28, Mark Creamer white...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Thinkpad T510 on which almost everything seems to be working properly (oi_151a with all current updates).