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

[Valmor de Almeida]

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...

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Valmor