From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QMvnj-00021E-HM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 05:29:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F2311C039; Thu, 19 May 2011 05:27:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB2851C039 for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 05:27:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyh4 with SMTP id 4so1049823gyh.40 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 22:27:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=7t1yX+PcRJaoV1yarxB+qNcAIBu04Mu2tAIpZhtZVcs=; b=A9cwf6w4Nkcd1nBkg4/n3Iq3OlfwL6Pt1xdQ33d1VXGa90Pi2F1gyXUkl4xoI/faEq S4BXcSAihB3tIYWE9mY7Z0ImLQgOK0BAJZvJz69ChEBZ5IN8JPfhON1PCWr6HsVfl9tg 0YVQ0boHrh4aKuQ2OijHa6y8+FNOCeqfeo4D0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=WsGRBhij4TOBpKcRUEMnwOi6G85kbMbodsf8Ny3cYakLiKG5/t+Wbngo7B5EgiYT6r /E+RUs+RG+GY4rxGBbhvsLMIo5kFTpWXwo0T0XnZdYb06WX0+NaKqYoMnzi/v7JQxh+C de/1nhBPayen52aUuF109cGeXAl5YoU8KDt0M= Received: by 10.236.193.10 with SMTP id j10mr3128761yhn.506.1305782870311; Wed, 18 May 2011 22:27:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.10.4] (c-68-32-248-84.hsd1.tn.comcast.net [68.32.248.84]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s11sm1592425anm.40.2011.05.18.22.27.48 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 18 May 2011 22:27:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DD4ACBF.8040108@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 01:38:07 -0400 From: Valmor de Almeida User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110516 Lightning/1.0b3pre Lanikai/3.1.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot References: <4DD33380.80003@gmail.com> <1305726651.3259.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1305726651.3259.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 7a5a52eb9b1c56cbc9c1a6de0a2ef3de On 05/18/2011 09:50 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > 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. > > I neglected to mention that the external monitor is connected through a dock base. Actually I should test whether the external monitor works as before by connecting it directly on the vga port on the laptop... -- Valmor