Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor recognition at boot time

2007-07-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote: > I would really like to automate this process - that's why I woul > really like to be able to acquire the EDID or something similar > (model specs or just a unique binary value) at boot time, so I can > invoke an appropriate script during system init. $ eix edid * x

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor recognition at boot time

2007-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 14:37:02 +0200, Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote: > Yes, that's pretty close to what I'm doing right at the moment. But I > would really like to automate this process - that's why I woul really > like to be able to acquire the EDID or something similar (model specs or > just a uniqu

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor recognition at boot time

2007-07-05 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
> What I do is maintain two xorg.conf files: xorg.conf.home & xorg.conf.work. Hm... that's what I wanted to avoid, since it's usually a PITA to maintain multiple instances of a config (I'm already doing this with sendmail...). > Then I do not start X during startup. Instead I log into the consol

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor recognition at boot time

2007-07-03 Thread Roy Wright
Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote: > The > problem is however, that at work the external CRT is _left of_ my laptop, > and at home the external (DFP) is _right of_ my laptop. So I would love > to be able to manipulate xorg.conf with a script at boot time. What I do is maintain two xorg.conf files: xo