Use VGA connector on FreeBSD

[Rainer Duffner]

Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:

> Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
>
>> Pierre-Luc Drouin writes:
>>
>>> I would like to buy a laptop and I would like to know if this is 
>>> usually possible to use the external VGA connector on FreeBSD.
>>
>>
>>
>> It is. That's not OS-dependent.
>>
>> FreeBSD probably cannot switch output destination, but the magic key 
>> on the keyboard can (Fn-F10 on my laptop).
>>
>> Arnt
>>
> ok thanks. I had heard of some people unable to use projectors with 
> Linux (while it worked on Windows) so I thought it could depend on the 
> OS. I had also read that we have to edit de X config file and add the 
> configuration parameters for the external monitor/projector so I 
> thought the X11 driver had something to do with it.


If your projector can only do XGA (1024x768) and your display can do 
more (mine does SGXA+, 1440x1050) you've got to switch to a lower 
resolution.

If there a tool that allows normal, non-root users to switch to 
different resolutions?
I can easily have two copies of XF86config and swap them as root, but a 
secure way for doing that as non-root would be good.



cheers,
Rainer