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pyrrhik
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 Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:09 am Post subject: video out |
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| how do I set my laptop to use the video out so I can display to an external monitor? |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 7:41 am Post subject: |
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If you want to use the vga/dvi out on the back there is usally a key combiantion for this, like fn+F4 look after a icon on one of your F keys and see if one of them resembles a "monitor". This is a hardware feathure and linux usally has "nothing to do with it".
You can also try to boot you laptop with the lid closed witch will set the laptop to use the external monitor.
If it is the "video out" to display the image on a tv etc this is a driver feathure, and you have to check if you gfx-card vendor supports this (in the linux driver), most nvidia card does.
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trapperjohn
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 8:11 am Post subject: |
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| Infected wrote: | | If you want to use the vga/dvi out on the back there is usally a key combiantion for this, like fn+F4 look after a icon on one of your F keys and see if one of them resembles a "monitor". This is a hardware feathure and linux usally has "nothing to do with it". |
Well, this depends on your video hardware. Some Cards are just dual-headed which means, you can use your LCD and vga-out at the same time. So you have to setup you XF86Config for Dual-Head use. |
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pyrrhik
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:08 pm Post subject: |
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| thanks, it's actually fn+f8. it works pretty well for the most part, but a good deal of the time, the X server will hang, display random things, and just generally not respond. I'm wondering if that's just a driver problem, or if I should have set my config file to something specific to avoid it |
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phate
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| Infected wrote: | | If you want to use the vga/dvi out on the back there is usally a key combiantion for this, like fn+F4 look after a icon on one of your F keys and see if one of them resembles a "monitor". This is a hardware feathure and linux usally has "nothing to do with it". |
When I press this key combination, nothing happens. When I boot Windoze, it works. But with gentoo just nothing happens.
What should I do to get this working? Are there perhaps any XOrg configs I have to adjust? |
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