Use VGA connector on FreeBSD

[Stijn Hoop]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 01:20:19PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> 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.

check out

xrandr(1)

which is what KDE uses.

(recent X.org or maybe XFree needed)

--Stijn

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