Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:09:22 +0000 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting aux display on laptop to be the only display Message-ID: <4A2DD262.2030909@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ade45ae90906081937i2d5afc84i7a1b4d49fb82fa87@mail.gmail.com> References: <4A2DA11E.80508@gmail.com> <ade45ae90906081937i2d5afc84i7a1b4d49fb82fa87@mail.gmail.com>
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Tim Judd wrote: > Laptop VGA cards are only two types: independently driven, or > mirrored. The former is what allows the internal and external to > display different things simultaneously. The latter is a 1:1 mirror > image on one and other. All laptops I've seen when the external VGA > is enabled are mirrored. Via VGA driver functions, you can make them > independent. > > My guess for what you need is xrandr, to which I'm not very well > versed. It seems to be "the answer" when it comes to video output > layout, size, orientation... swiss army knife. > That did the trick for anyone else with the same setup put this in any of your personal rc's like .xsession: xrander --output LCVDS --off --output VGA --auto > I'm welcome to corrections and learning myself, but I would shoot for > VGA driver and/or xrandr tweaking first. > > On 6/8/09, Aryeh M. Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have following hardware on my laptop: >> >> > dmesg|grep vga >> vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0x6110-0x6117 mem >> 0x90000000-0x903fffff,0x80000000-0x8fffffff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0 >> agp0: <Intel GM45 SVGA controller> on vgapci0 >> vgapci1: <VGA-compatible display> mem 0x94500000-0x945fffff at device >> 2.1 on pci0 >> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 >> drm0: <Mobile Intel\M-B\M-. GM45 Express Chipset> on vgapci0 >> vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster >> >> and I have an extrtnal 21" widescreen (vga) that when I hook it up the >> default x11.config has it at 1024x768 on *BOTH* monitors.... How do >> I make it so X only considers the external (if attached) monitor? >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > >
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