Use VGA connector on FreeBSD

[John Baldwin]

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.

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