Hi,
As John mentioned, this is indeed a function of BIOS.
I have a IBM A21p with Mdk 7.2 on it, and do presentations with StarOffice
on a regular basis.
To get external video going you press Fn-F7 repeatedly until the output
ends up the way you need it.
This will cycle through internal LCD, External VGA connector, both, then
back to internal LCD.
A problem that I have noticed is that most LCD projectors don't do
1600 x 1200 resolution, so you will probably have to dial the rez back
down to 1024 x 768 or so.
Good luck, let us know if this works for you.
HTH,
DGO
On Thursday 29 November 2001 11:09, you wrote:
> 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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