Re: How to turn off internal monitor when using external one

[James <james@buffer.net>]

Barry, Christopher wrote:

> I setup two different boot blocks in grub, and passed in two different
> cmdlines; one for 'Laptop' and one for 'Desktop'.
>
> These cmdlines were parsed by a small startup script I wrote to copy
> over the laptop or desktop x configuration file.
>
> On boot, I simply select laptop or desktop mode in grub boot screen.
>
>
> -C
>
>
>  
>
> > I'm working on a startup script that will copy the correct X 
> > config into
> > place, depending on whether I'm docked or not.  I don't know 
> > if there is
> > way to configure it to work docked or not docked without 
> > changing anything.
> >    

Maybe what is needed it to use 'netenv' to handle
the particulars of boottime X environment, as it does
so many other issues for booting into multiple
environments...

http://netenv.sourceforge.net/

It's already part of Debian so load it up and test see if
it's not usable...

just an idea,

James