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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: Notebook -- LCD/External display switching
Message-ID: <1994Apr15.135150.1013@gmd.de>
Sender: veit@mururoa (Holger Veit)
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Organization: GMD - German National Research Center for Computer Science
References: <9410116.15230@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <JKH.94Apr11185809@sentnl.ilo.dec.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 13:51:50 GMT
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In article <JKH.94Apr11185809@sentnl.ilo.dec.com>, jkh@sentnl.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) writes:
|> In article <9410116.15230@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> summer@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Mark Summerfield) writes:
|>
|> I would like to be able to do the same thing under FreeBSD. The first
|> thing which occurred to me (with my admittedly limited knowledge of kernel
|> hacking) was that it should be possible to add an ioctl function to the
|> console driver which would switch the display. Having done this, writing
|> a user program to do this would be trivial. I have three questions:
|>
|> This would be called... syscons! :-)
|>
|> Starting with XFree86 2.0 you can compile up FreeBSD with the syscons
|> driver (look in /sys/i386/conf/SYSCONS for an example) and XFree86 will
|> automagically detect it. When outside of X, virtual screens are switched
|> using ALT-Fn<n> and inside using SHIFT-ALT-Fn<n>. This has since been
|> changed to SHIFT-... both inside and outside of X, for consistency.
|>
|> Jordan
I would have understood the above request (Notebook!) to switching between
external VGA and LCD screen, not virtual screens. I have my doubts
that syscons can detect the highly machine/video card specific methods
to output between connectors.
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