Re: Use VGA connector on FreeBSD
John Baldwin <[email protected]>
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On Tuesday 26 April 2005 02:53 am, Rainer Duffner wrote: > 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. KDE has a little tool you can stick in your system tray to do this similar to putting a Display icon in your system tray in Windows. -- John Baldwin <[email protected]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"