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On 05/19/2011 01:38 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: |
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> On 05/18/2011 09:50 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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>> On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 22:48 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: |
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>>> Hello, |
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>>> What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected to a |
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>>> laptop during boot or when just using a plain console without an X |
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>>> server running? Before a recent update the output would just |
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>>> automatically go to an external monitor when one is connected. Now it |
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>>> does not; not sure it has anything to do with the openrc migration. |
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>>> |
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>> I think it largely depends on the particular hardware config. For my |
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>> laptop it's a BIOS option. |
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>> If you are using KMS however it seems to want to drive all outputs with |
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>> a monitor attached. |
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> I neglected to mention that the external monitor is connected through a |
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> dock base. Actually I should test whether the external monitor works as |
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> before by connecting it directly on the vga port on the laptop... |
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> Valmor |
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The solution was on the BIOS setting. Using the option: Analog (VGA) |
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shows the boot messages on the external monitor and on the laptop lcd. |
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Also without the external monitor attached, the boot messages show on |
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the laptop lcd when the Analog options is selected. I added the KMS |
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option i915.modeset=1 as a grub boot option but don't know if this helps |
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or not. |
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Valmor |
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