[OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring external monitor

[Bryan N Iotti]

It might not be very useful for a laptop, because when it says "save to file", you really are supposed to save it to Xorg.conf and then move it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and reboot.

That will make modifications stick upon reboot.

Again, are you always using the external display?
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:23:38 
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Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring external monitor

The last time I did something like that, I need to be root (or
equivalent) ... did you do that?

HTH
Michael

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 21:28, Mark Creamer <whitetr6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a Thinkpad T510 on which almost everything seems to be working
> properly (oi_151a with all current updates). The only issue I can't seem to
> get resolved is making the external monitor to work. If I open the NVidia
> configuration tool, I can see the monitor, but it shows "disabled." If I
> enable it by choosing separate X screen, and click Apply, the screen
> refreshes, but nothing shows up on the external monitor. I then restart the
> PC, and it's back to disabled again. I also tried "save to X configuration
> file" and saved it to a file, but the changes didn't seem to apply after
> rebooting. I'm probably just misunderstanding how to use the configuration
> tool, not sure. Thanks for any advice.
>
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