Is there any event that is triggered when I plug in or out an external monitor into the DisplayPort of my laptop? ACPID and UDEV don’t react at all.
On my new computer I have 2 screens connected on the igpu of a i7 processor, 1 using hdmi. the other using dvi. Both screens are the same but the one connected using hdmi has a wrong resolution inside X, and it can’t be selected inside the settings. How can this be solved?
I’ve used many variants of Linux(mostly Debian derivatives) for over a decade now. One problem that I haven’t seen solved satisfactorily is the issue of horizontal tearing, or Vsync not being properly implemented.
I want to gather the Edid information of the monitor.
I can get it from the xorg.0.log file when I run X with the -logverbose option.
Linux Mint 12 (64bit), on an Acer Aspire 7730g. Upon every boot, the screen brightness is set very very low. Easily fixed via the function keys, but still a very annoying thing to do after every boot. Is there a way to set the brightness permanently?
I just purchased a TripleHead2Go and configured it using OSX. What this box does is simply take 1-3 multiple external monitors and combine their signal into one single resolution. I’m using two external 1920×1080 displays with it, bringing my display size to 3940×1080, alongside my laptop’s regular display of 1920×1200. My laptop is running FGLRX 8.95 with Catalyst 12.3, the video card is an AMD Radeon HD 6700M. Here’s what I’m looking at, presently:
I have a new 27″ iMac, on which I run Fedora 15 (with no Apple OS) — just boot straight to Linux.