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?
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Andrew 'Dewa' B. Osmond < dewa.nich@gmail.com> wrote:
Here is my complete xorg.conf, Paul.
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "single head configuration" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer" EndSection
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics" Driver "synaptics" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" EndSection
Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "openchrome" EndSection
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection
The sequence just device -> screen. I have no external device configuration. Maybe you know how to configure external device?
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Always Learning centos@u61.u22.netwrote:
In my limited experience with notebooks and laptops, I found that repeatedly pressing the keys works. The sequence I found was (not necessarily in this order)
screen external device screen and external devicePaul.
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