Thank you for the response Rick. That will certainly work. I was sort of hopping for a more automatic solution. I don't really want to be messing around with config files when I'm setting up to do a presentation.
Are there any better solutions? -----Original Message----- From: clug-talk-boun...@clug.ca [mailto:clug-talk-boun...@clug.ca] On Behalf Of CITS - Lists Sent: April-23-11 12:56 PM To: CLUG General Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Laptop Display Questions Lol, and we wonder why Linux on desktops aren't more popular. Cheers, Dave Watkins 1-403-701-5746 supp...@calgaryitservices.com www.calgaryitservices.com Sent from my iPhone, pardon the brevity. On 2011-04-23, at 12:48, Rick Johnson <rick.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
