notebook / multiple visual displays - activation and control

[Andrea Dell'Amico]

On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 23:04 +1100, David Timms wrote:
> Keith Sharp wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 12:43 +1100, David Timms wrote:
> > 
> > <snipped statement of laptop + projector use case>
> > 
> >> =====
> >>
> >> Or perhaps I am simply missing the fedora howto or correct application, 
> >> or key stroke to either cycle through different inputs, or auto activate 
> >> them as they are plugged in. {intel 945GM driver}
> > 
> > You want:
> > 
> >     http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RandrSupport
> So, much in F9 to be. Perhaps it's time go a-beta'n on the work notebook 
> ;-) I'll start with the live cd.

You can use it in F-8 too, only no graphical utility exists. Use

xrandr --auto

to activate the external monitor, that's the basic functionality. You'll
find more examples on the man page, and on the net.

> DaveT.

ciao
andrea
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Andrea Dell'Amico - <http://www.link.it/>

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