[Gllug] Change the primary monitor for xorg and the console

[Tom Weissmann]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> On IBM thinkpads there's an option in the BIOS to tell it whether to
> send the video signal to the built-in LCD, or external VGA or both
> at boot time. You're kinda doomed if you can't see the BIOS though :-(
> Depending on the ACPI support you might be able to cat magic value
> into a file under /proc/acpi/video/ to change which output is active
> which should affect both text/framebuffer and X unless X is configured
> explicitly.

Thanks, I'll see if there is something in the Sony ACPI that lets me do 
this.

Still saving for a Thinkpad. The strong pound takes some of the fun out 
of Ebay for those of us in the Lisbon area of Greater London...

Tom SW


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