Re: Use VGA connector on FreeBSD
Rainer Duffner <[email protected]>
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Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: > >> Pierre-Luc Drouin writes: >> >>> I would like to buy a laptop and I would like to know if this is >>> usually possible to use the external VGA connector on FreeBSD. >> >> >> >> It is. That's not OS-dependent. >> >> FreeBSD probably cannot switch output destination, but the magic key >> on the keyboard can (Fn-F10 on my laptop). >> >> Arnt >> > ok thanks. I had heard of some people unable to use projectors with > Linux (while it worked on Windows) so I thought it could depend on the > OS. I had also read that we have to edit de X config file and add the > configuration parameters for the external monitor/projector so I > thought the X11 driver had something to do with it. If your projector can only do XGA (1024x768) and your display can do more (mine does SGXA+, 1440x1050) you've got to switch to a lower resolution. If there a tool that allows normal, non-root users to switch to different resolutions? I can easily have two copies of XF86config and swap them as root, but a secure way for doing that as non-root would be good. cheers, Rainer _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"