Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda wrote: > Hi. > > The monitor of my laptop is broken, thus the screen frequently becomes > white. Then, it is needed to turning off the energy and restart the laptop > (not always with success). > > Therefore, I plugged a VGA monitor. However, the VGA monitor does not work > when X is active. (It works very fine with framebuffer, though.) > > How to enable Xorg to use a VGA monitor plugged to a laptop? I use a command like this:
xrandr --output LVDS1 --auto --output VGA1 --auto > Thanks. > Hudson Lacerda > > > > > > hudson@musix:tmp$ xrandr > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 2047 x 2047 > LVDS-1 connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) > 303mm x 190mm > 1280x800 59.91*+ > VGA-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) > > > Debian 8.2 > > > X.Org X Server 1.16.4 > Release Date: 2014-12-20 > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 > Build Operating System: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 i686 Debian > Current Operating System: Linux musix 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian > 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1 (2015-12-14) i686 > Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-686-pae > root=UUID=05...fb1 ro lang=pt_BR vga=789 quiet > Build Date: 11 February 2015 01:14:26AM > xorg-server 2:1.16.4-1 (http://www.debian.org/support) > Current version of pixman: 0.32.6 > > > > xrandr program version 1.4.2 > Server reports RandR version 1.4 > > > > > > -- > Hudson Lacerda - www.hudsonlacerda.com > -- > > - Venha para a Diaspora* - uma rede social livre e descentralizada > https://diasporafoundation.org > https://diasporabr.com.br > > - Mantenha o controle de sua computação, senão ela vai controlar você! > https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/keep-control-of-your-computing.html > > - O modelo das urnas eletrônicas brasileiras é o mais antiquado e > obscuro em uso no mundo. > http://votoseguro.org > -- Joel Roth