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 at 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 at 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. >> > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110912/7938ad56/attachment-0005.html>