Don't search for monitors on boot
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen at gmail.com
Tue Apr 27 13:59:25 UTC 2010
> Laptops will not normally set up a monitor that isn't there (regardless of
> OS as the other poster mentioned).
>
Ah, so it is at the hardware level? I did not realize that, thanks.
Chan Chung's comment did not make that clear, though it may be what he
meant to imply.
> I usually close the lid to suspend, hook the monitor up and open the lid
> again, followed by gnome-display-properties if required.
>
I have disconnected the suspend switch, but I will try to find the
command for suspending.
> I believe you can set up your display using xrandr see
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2
>
Very helpful, thanks.
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