What distro are you running? Hopefully the 7.10 release of K/X/Ubuntu will resolve this issue: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/gutsybeta#head-e52f6217796602d81956abc8c950561bd0d42e5c
On 10/12/07, sgrover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was having a problem with my laptop talking to an external VGA device. > I think I found the fix. > > The problem is that when the laptop is running, hooking it up to a > projector (or LCD monitor) via the VGA port would NOT show the image on > the VGA device. My fn-F5 would do nothing, and telling KDE that I had > two monitors was intermittent at best. (only ever seen that work once). > > The fix (which seems sooooo blindingly obvious to me NOW) is to hook up > the VGA device and then restart the X server, WITHOUT modifying my > configurations. > > A quick test with an LCD monitor both showed the symptoms AND that this > fixed the problem. Now I just need to get access to a projector again > and see if it works there too.... > > Shawn > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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