[ltp] External monitor

[Atul Chitnis]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, credito@gmx.de wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a T42 with Debian unstable installed. A while ago I successfully 
> configured my thinkpad to use an external monitor/beamer.  I haven't 
> used it for a while and after some debian unstable upgrades (My guess is 
> the step from xorg 7.0 to 7.1) this feature is broken.
>
> If I boot the thinkpad with external display attached it works fine. But 
> I cannot get the display working once X is running and I attach the 
> external display. Fn-F7 doesn't do the trick. However I noticed that the 
> monitor receives some kind of signal but does not display anything.

Here is the xorg.conf that did total and absolute magic for me:

Section "Device"
         Identifier  "Videocard0"
         Driver      "i810"
         Option "Clone" "yes"
         Option "MonitorLayout" "CRT,LFP"
         Option "DevicePresence" "yes"
EndSection

Not sure if it will work with your display card, but it is a fairly 
generic setting, so it should.

Atul