Don't search for monitors on boot

[Brian McKee]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27 April 2010 14:19, Chan Chung Hang Christopher
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> I have an external monitor that I attach to my Kubuntu 9.10 laptop. It
>>> must be connected when I boot, if I boot with it disconnected then
>>> connect it there will be no VGA out. However, once the machine has
>>> booted I can connect and disconnect the monitor with no problems.
>>>
>>> How can I save the configuration such that I will no longer have to
>>> keep the monitor connected at boot? This is often very inconvenient.
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>
>> That's kinda normal? Even on Windows, you have to tell it that you have
>> connected a monitor. Maybe what is needed is to enable that switch
>> between lcd, lcd + monitor, monitor function key?
>>
>
> I do not know what Windows does. I haven't used it in almost five years.
>
> I will rephrase my question:
> The state of my laptop when disconnected from the monitor is different
> depending on if it was booted with the monitor present or not. If the
> machine was booted with the monitor (which was then disconnected),
> then connecting the monitor will result in a functional monitor. If
> the machine was booted without the monitor, then connecting the
> monitor will result in the monitor not showing video.
>
> How can I cause the no-monitor-on-boot state to be the same as the
> monitor-on-boot state?

Laptops will not normally set up a monitor that isn't there (regardless of OS as the other poster mentioned).

I usually close the lid to suspend, hook the monitor up and open the lid again, followed by gnome-display-properties if required.

I believe you can set up your display using xrandr see http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2

Brian
-- 
Hey, it's your computer.... isn't it?

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