Re: Laptop X & Projector confusion

[Derek Agar <derekagar@yahoo.com>]

I have had problems with an HP laptop running SLED10
and the external monitor.  SLED10 has SAX2 for
handling x configs, but it still was hoky.
I got a new dell inspiron w/ubuntu and there is no
easy tool for using the external monitor/svideo.  If
anyone knows of a way to configure external monitors
w/ubuntu let me know.
Thanks
Derek

--- Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us> wrote:

> Over the weekend I did a presentation using my FC6
> Acer laptop. I had a 
> nasty surprise when I booted up and it failed to go
> into X! Repeatedly. On 
> this laptop I usually need to have the exterior
> monitor/projector plugged 
> in at boot up time to get the video out to be turned
> on, and so this is 
> what I had done.
> 
> As a final step before moving the presentation to
> the windows side of the 
> laptop I tried booting without the projector plugged
> in. It worked fine, I 
> was able to then connect the video cable and move on
> ahead the 
> presentation. Luckily I was early and there was no
> audience, so I had a 
> fairly private crummy 10 minutes in working this
> out.
> 
> So, was the projector reporting something back to
> the kernel or X? When 
> the projector was plugged in before starting X, I
> could not even run the 
> display configuration tool. It reported that it
> failed on card0 and card1. 
> There is only one card. Hmmm.
> 
> Erich
> 
> 
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