J?rgen Keil wrote: >> My laptop, a Clevo D901C with Nvidia FX1600M graphics. >> > ... > >> So, the only way to switch the output was to configure xorg.conf to >> direct the output to the external connection. >> >> Now my questions: >> > .. > >> 2) If not possible, can the xorg.conf be changed without restarting the >> xserver? >> > > Isn't it possible to configure the second screen using the > nvidia-settings utility? >
Nvidia's settings utility worked great for configuring a second monitor, either as single or dual, but it requires a restart of the xserver for changes to take effect so it requires saving settings to xorg.conf for the settings to be read again. So basically I created two xorg.conf file, one for internal monitor and one for external monitor. My intent is to make it as easy as possible to switch to the external monitor, even it I need to create a script to do so, this is my reasoning for trying to restart the xserver without logging out the in. Unfortunately, it needs to be brought back to a default condition before logging out and shutting down, so I'll probably need a script located in /etc/rc2.d directory to copy xorg.config files at startup. All would be great if just "Fn-F7" would work. Maybe somebody knows how to configure this. Paul
