[ltp] External Monitor/Projector in X Window

[William Ball]

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, jmaegli wrote:

> Hello,
> I have been running Linux for 3 years now (started with RH 4.1) but I have
> never installed Linux on a laptop. Everything works well except when I
> startx my primary monitor goes blank (looses the signal from the laptop). I
> have an IBM Thinkpad 600E with a Neomagic 256AV video card installed using
> RH 6.0 with a 2.2.10 kernel. I have installed new Neomagic drivers (RH
> supplies drivers for the Neomagic 128... card only).  No matter what I have
> tried the monitor or projector looses the signal from the laptop. I have
> tried all the resolutions and I have switched between them without a
> positive result. If I CTRL-ALT Backspace out of X-Window the monitor comes
> alive again.  Any thoughts would be appreciated.

did you set the 'Option extern_disp' in the XF86Config (re: the README
under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc directory?)...

just a thought

hth

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