Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:43 PM, nomad2002 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> nomad2002 wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately the luminosity on my laptop screen has failed[1]. I am
>> using an external monitor but I am not able to use my FC8 system to
>> display to the external monitor, I am using Knoppix which works fine.
>>
>> What tips or pointers should I track down to try to get the FC8 system
>> to output to the external monitor?
>>
>>
>
> Is that not a hardware thing?
>
> Most laptops have an additional meta-key called "Fn", on the ones I've
> seen. Isn't it something like Fn+F8 (Dell 1420) to cycle through video
> output options. Maybe the F8 (eg) key even has an icon or secondary label?
>
> Have you read the fine manual for your laptop? :-)
>
> What laptop model is it?
>
> Regards,
> ..jim
>
>
>
The way I got the external monitor to work with Knoppix was to go into
BIOS and make sure the external monitor is available. Once I did that
Knoppix came up. I tried this after FC8 wouldn't work knowing it should
work (hurray for Knoppix once again).
The [Fn] key under FC8 has never worked on my system (I know what Lan
means about FC8). So for instance if I wanted a change in brightness or
a change in speaker volume via the [Fn] key I had to do it before
logging into FC8. Note that the FC8 login screen does appear on the
external monitor but once log in is made the external monitor is blank.
Laptop is Fujitsu Lifebook C-Series circa 2002...
Is it possible that F8 is trying a resolution or frame rate that the
monitor can not display?
Can you boot F8 in single-user mode and see a display? If so, you
should be able to modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf to ask for something that
your monitor can show.
By the way, is this a flat-panel LCD monitor?
carl
I am using an old CRT at home and a LCD at the work site...
I was thinking that I need to fiddle with /etc/X11/xorg.conf but
various resolutions are working under Knoppix so I wasn't sure... I was
thinking to try 800x600 and 1024x768 as defaults in xorg.conf...
TIA,
rbw
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