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From: Andrew Udvare <audvare@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] semi OT: Displayport
Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 02:23:50
Message-Id: E745E02E-B995-448D-A106-C1E501D24510@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] semi OT: Displayport by Bill Kenworthy
1 > On 2018-05-29, at 22:03, Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote:
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3 > Can anyone suggest a way to detect when the displayport adapter is
4 > plugged in?
5 >
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7 The event is provided by the driver(s) and if there is no event at all then you have to use a script that loops forever querying to see if something has changed. You could try grep'ing `xquery -q` every few seconds.
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9 This post says there might be something in /proc to track:
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11 https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/13746/how-can-i-detect-when-a-monitor-is-plugged-in-or-unplugged
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13 Andrew

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Re: [gentoo-user] semi OT: Displayport Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>