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 1QN22B-00029y-3C for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 12:08:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 65F121C1B1; Thu, 19 May 2011 12:06:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 367821C1B1 for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 12:06:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywl2 with SMTP id 2so1145279ywl.40 for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 05:06:49 -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=YoxiJh1B4I7ZVPskBVTsy1ouTJWZAT7bWaTkVQWul8A=; b=HcPftOFAFwWlfzjU5sO7KFEhgupAR7mL+ha/S9QzbFF9bNzA5SffAZxZJO6QzFlPN6 2Xk9OG3cAckm926b8/fd2zs+MP5jdT7jCsknEv1pUIVFAkwrn22skDZZ+/avTfPlzOXe EMNJjfGL0eDPakh17rpoVK0VOnsVLhsLl2Bog= 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=SEqSuJzZv9dj9BhGUGMKfHGGzR59y7ucTTkpi04vLDtfkRZUmkNbl6ezSlTK4Wj1UP B+LxkOuclzw5UnfASyvfd/8KHlC3jWd11YmcgQllVN3Pa68B8cjaJ+G7h2lNMkDdS5V6 F+Yyc0Yvx/iCpilc5E45rl89Jiik836371wc0= Received: by 10.236.126.201 with SMTP id b49mr3290537yhi.166.1305806809689; Thu, 19 May 2011 05:06:49 -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 j3sm1781671anm.35.2011.05.19.05.06.48 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 19 May 2011 05:06:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DD50A43.9020807@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 08:17:07 -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: [SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot References: <4DD33380.80003@gmail.com> <1305726651.3259.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4DD4ACBF.8040108@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DD4ACBF.8040108@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fbfd9d25985d8b398cdf14729bdcaa0f On 05/19/2011 01:38 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > 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 The solution was on the BIOS setting. Using the option: Analog (VGA) shows the boot messages on the external monitor and on the laptop lcd. Also without the external monitor attached, the boot messages show on the laptop lcd when the Analog options is selected. I added the KMS option i915.modeset=1 as a grub boot option but don't know if this helps or not. -- Valmor