Hi all,
I have my laptop connected to an external monitor. When I open the laptop I want to have the display on the laptop, when it's closed it should go to external monitor. The problem is that I can't get the display on the monitor unless I open the laptop. Further, when I open the laptop I have the screen on the monitor looks like this-
I then run the following script and the display goes to the monitor properly.
Can anyone please tell me why when the same script is in rc.local, it's not working properly? i.e., I can't get the display on the monitor unless I open the laptop initially.
I've checked xrandr -q and my xorg.conf and I don't see anything apparently wrong. Can anyone please tell me what I'm missing?
Here are xrandr -q output and my xorg.conf -
My xorg.conf -
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddjtzn4_4cc4hh3
Laptop has Radeon Mobility 7500 and external monitor is Samsung SyncMaster 225BW with 1680x1050 resolution.
Googling showed that many people have faced similar problem with radeon, and in most cases they have been able to get around with xrandr. Here are some threads using which I tried diffrerent things in them -
Any pointers/ suggestions greatly welcome.
Thanks in advance,
KM
I have my laptop connected to an external monitor. When I open the laptop I want to have the display on the laptop, when it's closed it should go to external monitor. The problem is that I can't get the display on the monitor unless I open the laptop. Further, when I open the laptop I have the screen on the monitor looks like this-
I then run the following script and the display goes to the monitor properly.
Code:
if xrandr -q | grep -q "VGA-0 connected"; then xrandr --output LVDS --off xrandr --output VGA --off xrandr --output VGA --mode 1680x1050 else xrandr --output VGA --off xrandr --output LVDS --off xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1280x800 fi
I've checked xrandr -q and my xorg.conf and I don't see anything apparently wrong. Can anyone please tell me what I'm missing?
Here are xrandr -q output and my xorg.conf -
Code:
[root@x1002us ~]# xrandr -q Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 1680 x 1050 VGA-0 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 474mm x 296mm 1680x1050 60.0*+ 60.0 60.0* 1280x1024 75.0 59.9 1280x960 59.9 1152x864 75.0 74.8 1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 60.0 720x400 70.1 LVDS connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1280x800 59.9 + 60.0 1280x768 60.0 1280x720 60.0 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 640x480 59.9 S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) [root@x1002us ~]#
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddjtzn4_4cc4hh3
Laptop has Radeon Mobility 7500 and external monitor is Samsung SyncMaster 225BW with 1680x1050 resolution.
Googling showed that many people have faced similar problem with radeon, and in most cases they have been able to get around with xrandr. Here are some threads using which I tried diffrerent things in them -
Any pointers/ suggestions greatly welcome.
Thanks in advance,
KM
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