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Old 05-01-2009, 03:12 AM   #1
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Detect connected (or turned on) monitor


Dear LQ users!

Is there any tool (or programming method) for detecting if a monitor is connected to the standard VGA output? I have Matrox Mystique graphics card, using ttys with mgafb.

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Old 05-01-2009, 07:58 PM   #2
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That would be the xrandr command.
 
Old 05-05-2009, 03:25 PM   #3
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That would be the xrandr command.
It only works with X doesn't it?
I need a solution for console framebuffer.
 
Old 05-07-2009, 10:30 PM   #4
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It runs from the command line, if that's what you mean... I don't know about configuring X stuff without X, that's probably some lowlevel stuff somewhere else. I'm not sure you can even go multi-head without X.
 
  


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