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.net> wrote:

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 device

Paul.

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