Re: [Hampshire] Probing for monitors

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Author: Samuel Penn
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Probing for monitors

On Mon, July 23, 2007 14:02, Hugo Mills wrote:
>    All -

>
>    Does anyone know of a way of determining which external VGA/DVI
> ports on a machine have a monitor attached?


Since you're using NVidia, have you tried nvidia-settings?

One of the options is "nvidia-settings -q ConnectedDisplays"

This only seems to work if X is already running however.

Sounds like the sort of information that should be somewhere
in /proc

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