[vox-tech] Laptop external VGA monitor

[Hans W. Uhlig]

is this an nvidia or ati card, if its nvidia there is
a command option for X to do multi monitor. ATI has a
similer one.

--- Ken Bloom <kbloom at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm having trouble using an external
> monitor/projector with my Compaq
> Presario v2310us [1]. The computer doesn't activate
> the VGA port when I
> do the Function-F4 (monitor switch) thing. If I
> reboot while the VGA
> monitor is attached, then it boots up and runs X
> mirrored on both the
> LCD and the external monitor, but if I don't boot up
> that way, then I
> haven't gotten it to put out an image on the
> external port yet.
> 
> How can I fix this?
> 
> [1]
>
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/Main/Compaq_Presario_v2310us
> 
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Hans W. Uhlig
Mobile Field Technician
Staples Inc.

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