On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Chimou wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 14:44, Kevin Brosius wrote: > > > > The XF86Config file allows you to specify BusID for each "Device" in the > > form: > > BusID "0:14:0" > > Each device could then be configured with it's own "Screen" section. > > And then you just need to specify their layout with the "ServerLayout" > > section (if you are doing multi-head). Most of what you need should be > > in 'man XF86Config' for the keywords. > > I think you may have misundertand my question. I already have a working > configuration for both my xinerama and my mono monitor with two layout > (I attach my XF86Config with this email). > > That what I would do it's to automatically detect if a monitor is > connected to my analog D-SUB VGA Connector of my laptop, and if yes, > start X with the layout support Xinerama, and if no, start X with > the simple layout with only one monitor. > > So my question is : Does someone know a command or a package, within > X or indepently (specific or not to a particular card), to detect > which monitor is attached to a card ? > > Thx in advance for your help. There are EDID probing utilities out there, and I'm told that there are Vesa standard ways to probe multiple heads on a single device. Whether those EDID probing utilities are up-to-date enough to support the multihead Vesa stuff is another matter. So basically, it should be possible to do this in a device independent way, but I don't know if there is any software that does that. Mark. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
