Re: compiling kernels newer than 2.6.8

2005-02-04 Thread Derek Broughton
On Friday 04 February 2005 08:59, Kai Hildebrandt wrote: > On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:30:50 -0400 > > Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know that - so explain why I can create an initrd that works on a > > vanilla 2.4.27? > > You simply create a initrd with another fs except carmfs i.e.

Re: compiling kernels newer than 2.6.8

2005-02-04 Thread Kai Hildebrandt
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:30:50 -0400 Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know that - so explain why I can create an initrd that works on a > vanilla 2.4.27? You simply create a initrd with another fs except carmfs i.e. ext2, romfs, etc. which is supported by the initrd loader. -- To U

Re: Re: How to turn off internal monitor when using external one

2005-02-04 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
thank you for your answer, I've read a Xinerama Howto and I understand it's about combining multiple monitors so that each shows a different portion of the screen. Furthermore, if I understand correctly, every monitor is supposed to be attached to a different graphics card. My case is different. I

Re: How to turn off internal monitor when using external one

2005-02-04 Thread Koen Vermeer
Op vr 04-02-2005, om 08:54 schreef Martin Hauser: > if not, there might be a way to tell your X to send the notebook screen > into dpms suspend mode. That would turn the backlight off and send > the screen to suspend which might do the trick. But sadly i have to > admit i have no Idea h

Re: How to turn off internal monitor when using external one

2005-02-04 Thread Martin Hauser
Hello, > >However if I switch to the text console (even if X is running in the > >background), the internal monitor does turn off. Thus I suspect it > >could be a problem of configuring X correctly. I guess that I should > >somehow tell X that I have two distinct monitors, and want to use