[ltp] Re: External Monitor/Projector in X Window

[jmaegli]

I just got the answer to this one, jeez sometimes I feel dumber than a box
of hair.  The fix is to uncomment the line in the /etc/X11/XF86config file
that says  option "extern_disp".

-----Original Message-----
From: jmaegli <jmaegli@pcpros.net>
To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>;
linux-laptop@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-laptop@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 12:01 PM
Subject: External Monitor/Projector in X Window


>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.
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