From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 09:50:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305726651.3259.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DD33380.80003@gmail.com>
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 22:48 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected to a
> laptop during boot or when just using a plain console without an X
> server running? Before a recent update the output would just
> automatically go to an external monitor when one is connected. Now it
> does not; not sure it has anything to do with the openrc migration.
>
I think it largely depends on the particular hardware config. For my
laptop it's a BIOS option.
If you are using KMS however it seems to want to drive all outputs with
a monitor attached.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-18 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-18 2:48 [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot Valmor de Almeida
2011-05-18 3:20 ` Mark Shields
2011-05-18 3:56 ` Valmor de Almeida
2011-05-18 3:51 ` Mark Shields
2011-05-18 4:52 ` Valmor de Almeida
2011-05-18 13:50 ` Albert Hopkins [this message]
2011-05-19 5:38 ` Valmor de Almeida
2011-05-19 12:17 ` [SOLVED]Re: " Valmor de Almeida
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