From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 13:46:11 +1300 "C. Falconer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> My Dell has an ATI video card, which simply does not put out a signal 
>> under linux.  I've been meaning to look into the causes - but its been 
>> easier to boot XP for those few times I needed a working VGA port.

>Are you saying it does not produce an external vga signal? ie you cannot
plug in an
>external monitor?

It works perfectly under winXP, the external port can be a second monitor or
a duplicate of the LCD.  However in X the Fn-F8 keypress is ignored.

It could be the ATI driver module for X, or all sorts.  The i8k kernel
module doesn't do anything on this model.

> whats the model?

Dell Latitude L400 - a P3 700.

-- 
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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