On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Matthieu Herrb  wrote:

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> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Amarendra Godbole

>   wrote:

>  > I am unable to move the display to a projector or an external monitor

>  >  on my Thinkpad X60, which is running OpenBSD 4.2-current. Fn-F7 is the

>  >  keycombination to be used to switch displays, but it does not work.

>  >  Now, I am not too sure if this is a function of the OS, or Thinkpad's

>  >  firmware. Search engines turned up nothing. Can someone suggest a way

>  >  by which I can make use of an external monitor? Any software package

>  >  to control this? Thanks.

>  >

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>  The X60 is using intel i965 graphics right? (hard to tell without some

>  dmesg or Xorg.0.log attached to your message)

>  So X is normally using the 'intel' driver which uses XRandR 1.2.

>  Plug you projector or external monitor, run 'xrandr --auto' and you

>  should be setup for mirroring.

>  Check the xrandr(1) man page and the intel web site

>  http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/dualhead.html for more configuration

>  options.

Okay, this should have worked earlier (it is i945 chipset), but did

not, and I was trying to figure out what must be wrong, until now. I

removed my xorg.conf, and then tried doing an "xrandr --auto", and

bingo - I had both my LCD and the external monitor working.
I am soooooooo excited - now I can do all my presentations through

OpenBSD, without depending on some other OS to handle it.
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>  If I wrong and the X60 doesn't use an intel chipset, please post more

>  details first (Xorg.0.log or dmesg at least)

-Amarendra