It might not be very useful for a laptop, because when it says "save to file", you really are supposed to save it to Xorg.conf and then move it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and reboot.
That will make modifications stick upon reboot. Again, are you always using the external display? Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from WIND -----Original Message----- From: Michael Schuster <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:23:38 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana<[email protected]> Reply-To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring external monitor The last time I did something like that, I need to be root (or equivalent) ... did you do that? HTH Michael On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 21:28, Mark Creamer <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a Thinkpad T510 on which almost everything seems to be working > properly (oi_151a with all current updates). The only issue I can't seem to > get resolved is making the external monitor to work. If I open the NVidia > configuration tool, I can see the monitor, but it shows "disabled." If I > enable it by choosing separate X screen, and click Apply, the screen > refreshes, but nothing shows up on the external monitor. I then restart the > PC, and it's back to disabled again. I also tried "save to X configuration > file" and saved it to a file, but the changes didn't seem to apply after > rebooting. I'm probably just misunderstanding how to use the configuration > tool, not sure. Thanks for any advice. > > -- > Mark > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- Michael Schuster http://recursiveramblings.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
