On Saturday 23 April 2011 00:31:10 Craig McLean wrote: > Does Linux (in particular Ubuntu 10.10, using the Nvidia X Server > proprietary driver) allow you to easily configure an external display > device. What I'm thinking of here is the scenario where you show up to do > a presentation and just plug a projector or large LCD panel in to a laptop > that is already turned on hit a display switch hot key and start > presenting. I do this in Windows all the time but I've been to enough CLUG > and Protospace presentations to know that on Linux this always turns into > a mess of X-Server restarts and plenty of tweaking config settings. > > > > Is there any way to make that just work? > > > > Craig. Connect the second display then open the nvidia x server settings app, setup the second display and save the new xorg.conf in /home/~. Then open a terminal, su and cp the new xorg.conf to /etc/X11. The driver will now automatically sort itself out whether the second display is connected or not.
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