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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!pa.dec.com!usenet.pa.dec.com!jkh From: jkh@sentnl.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Notebook -- LCD/External display switching Date: 11 Apr 1994 17:58:09 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.94Apr11185809@sentnl.ilo.dec.com> References: <9410116.15230@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> NNTP-Posting-Host: sentnl.ilo.dec.com In-reply-to: summer@ee.mu.OZ.AU's message of Mon, 11 Apr 1994 06:40:53 GMT 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