[ltp] hotplugging VGA monitor to T61

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:50 AM, nescivi <nescivi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hiho,
>
> Is there any solution so that I can just hotplug a VGA monitor to my T61, the
> moment I need it?
> Right now, I find myself having to boot up with a monitor/projector connected,
> which is sometimes inconvenient (especially at conferences, where setup time
> is short).
>
> Is there any way to get the T61 to recognise that something has been
> connected?
>
> I'm on Debian unstable.

you should be able to enable/disable video outputs on the fly with
xrandr.  The radeon and intel drivers support xrandr; not sure about
nvidia.

Alex