Re: [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

[Albert Hopkins]

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.