How can I detect when a monitor is plugged in or unplugged?
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.
monitors
Unlisted screen resolution
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?
Why is video tearing such a problem in Linux?
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.
Edid information
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.
tty (console): disable monitor
In .xinitrc, I use
How do I set default brightness after boot?
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?
Split a physical X display into two virtual displays?
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:
How can I simply adjust monitor color temperture in X?
I have a new 27″ iMac, on which I run Fedora 15 (with no Apple OS) — just boot straight to Linux.