I am led to believe that external monitors have very little interaction in terms of Monitor to PC. It may be a BIOS issue, try and have a look there. What particular model of laptop do you have?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Andrew 'Dewa' B. Osmond <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dewa.nich@gmail.com">dewa.nich@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Here is my complete xorg.conf, Paul.<br><br># Xorg configuration created by system-config-display<br><br>Section "ServerLayout"<br> Identifier "single head configuration"<br> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0<br>
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"<br> InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "InputDevice"<br> Identifier "Keyboard0"<br>
Driver "kbd"<br> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"<br> Option "XkbLayout" "us"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "InputDevice"<br> Identifier "Synaptics"<br>
Driver "synaptics"<br> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"<br> Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"<br> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"<br>
EndSection<div class="im"><br><br>Section "Device"<br> Identifier "Videocard0"<br> Driver "openchrome"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Screen"<br> Identifier "Screen0"<br>
Device "Videocard0"<br> DefaultDepth 24<br> SubSection "Display"<br> Viewport 0 0<br> Depth 24<br> Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"<br>
EndSubSection<br>EndSection <br><br></div>The sequence just device -> screen. I have no external device configuration. Maybe you know how to configure external device?<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Always Learning <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:centos@u61.u22.net" target="_blank">centos@u61.u22.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">
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</div>In my limited experience with notebooks and laptops, I found that<br>
repeatedly pressing the keys works. The sequence I found was (not<br>
necessarily in this order)<br>
<br>
screen<br>
external device<br>
screen and external device<br>
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Paul.<br></blockquote></div>
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