Try this first (to isolate the problem). 1. Reboot. 2. At the grub prompt, press ESC to get to the GRUB boot menu. 3. Hit the fn+fk to toggle between LCD, CRT, and both.
If this doesn't work, the problem may be with your BIOS. --- mike t. ----- Original Message ---- From: Allister Levi Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:16:57 AM Subject: Re: [plug] two screens on gutsy gibbon beta Hi Mike, Yes, I wanted the latter, i.e., one a copy of the other. Instead, all I've been able to make is the supposedly more complicated case of 2 separate desktop screens, by playing with the xorg.conf file. I tried Fn+Function keys but it doesn't work. In my previous PCs, this worked out smoothly, just plug in the monitor cable and I'm done. Now I dunno why the other screen just stays dark. A reboot has no effect. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Allister On 10/10/07, Michael Tinsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you want to separate desktop screens, or one a copy of the other? If the latter, it is simply a matter of pressing the proper fn+f? key. Beware, for this I usually switch to a text console (ctrl-alt-f1) before pressing these keys, as my laptop hangs when doing the display switching while in X. Pressing the fn+f? keys in rapid succession also hangs my unit. Probably a video driver problem -- mine's an intel chipset. If the former, try using Systems Settings (I'm using Kubuntu, btw) first. If that doesn't work, try googling "multihead". There are a few howto's in ubuntuforums.org -- try searching there as well. --- mike t.
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