On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Matthieu Herrb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Amarendra Godbole > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am unable to move the display to a projector or an external monitor > > on my Thinkpad X60, which is running OpenBSD 4.2-current. Fn-F7 is the > > keycombination to be used to switch displays, but it does not work. > > Now, I am not too sure if this is a function of the OS, or Thinkpad's > > firmware. Search engines turned up nothing. Can someone suggest a way > > by which I can make use of an external monitor? Any software package > > to control this? Thanks. > > > > The X60 is using intel i965 graphics right? (hard to tell without some > dmesg or Xorg.0.log attached to your message) > So X is normally using the 'intel' driver which uses XRandR 1.2. > Plug you projector or external monitor, run 'xrandr --auto' and you > should be setup for mirroring. > Check the xrandr(1) man page and the intel web site > http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/dualhead.html for more configuration > options.
Okay, this should have worked earlier (it is i945 chipset), but did not, and I was trying to figure out what must be wrong, until now. I removed my xorg.conf, and then tried doing an "xrandr --auto", and bingo - I had both my LCD and the external monitor working. I am soooooooo excited - now I can do all my presentations through OpenBSD, without depending on some other OS to handle it. > > If I wrong and the X60 doesn't use an intel chipset, please post more > details first (Xorg.0.log or dmesg at least) -Amarendra
