Re: external flatscreen with Thinkpad T42

"Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 10:57 -0800, Bakul Shah wrote:

> (As Peter Jeremy had also suggested) I had already looked at
> Xorg.0.log prior to my initial email and I know mine
> (2378-DUU) does higher res than 1024x768 for external
> displays.  I think what is happening is Xorg thinks both
> displays are on at the same time and chooses a common
> resolution.  It does detect two 'CRTs' and also what each can
> do.  Specifying 'screen 1' results in no display whatsoever.
> So I am onto something:-)
I run SuSE Linux on my T42 (this is work laptop and I am not given much
choice). Only way I have found so far to reliably use external monitor
(in my case -- projector) is to power it on and keep hitting Fn-F7 until
BIOS screen shows up on the projector.

-- 
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko

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