Switch display output without rebooting but not in Xorg

Question

My graphic card has two output (VGA and DVI). Is it possible to switch from one to the other without rebooting ?

It works in Xorg by restarting the X server (I guess it should be doable with xrandr too) but I'd like to do it in the linux console.

I have looked at vbetool but I am not sure it is the right way (the commands I tried did not work anyway).

I have a nvidia card.

Answer 1

I can't try it right know, but I found this answer to your question:
fbgetty /dev/tty8 /dev/fb0
fbgetty /dev/tty9 /dev/fb1

Where:
- /dev/tty8/9/n are the terminals you want to move
- /dev/fb0/1/v are the framebuffer devices you want to use ... it should switch between your outputs

Solution is taken from this forum thread: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/debian-linux/96430-move-tty-second-monitor.html