I don't know about the IBM, but in every laptop I've ever had it a simple matter of hitting the keys that told the hardware to switch to the external monitor. It worked in Windows just the same as in Linux. In one case, I did have to add a line to my XF86Config file to allow this, but that was it.
What happens when you try this? David -----Original Message----- From: ajax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 11:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze! I've asked this question in a few places with no takers so I thought that I'd take it to the experts. I need to do a presentation at school. I thought I could use open office or kpresenter. The problem is I need to get the external out and tv out working on my laptop. This presentation will probably be using a projector so I believe getting the external monitor to work is more important. I have an ibm a21p with the ati m3 16mb video card. Any ideas? Please save me from M$!! Otherwise I don't need M$ very much. The spreadsheet program of open office isn't yet up to excel but Matlab runs on Linux so I can do all of my calculations there.
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