In all laptops I have handled, it usually cycles between LCD, CRT and BOTH. Apparently your BIOS don't cycle to BOTH. You may want to see if there are updates to the BIOS you can flash.
All is not lost, you can tweak your xorg.conf to get a clone configuration. Just: man <drivername> --- 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 10:35:06 AM Subject: Re: [plug] two screens on gutsy gibbon beta Hi Mike, Thanks again. I tried your little test: 1. Reboot. 2. At grub prompt, press ESC. 3. Hit fn+fk. Here, what happens is I see the grub menu being displayed alternately between the my laptop display and the external monitor, but never both on at the same time. My F8 button has the "CRT/LCD" label by the way. Do you think it's a BIOS issue or purely an X server problem? Right now, by the way, what I have are like 2 different desktops. The mouse travels from my laptop screen to the external monitor if I move the mouse pointer to the right hand side of my laptop. The opposite happens when I move the mouse pointer to the left of the external display. It's not so bad, actually because I'll have bigger working space. But I would still like to have the good old "clone" display, especially when I have do presentation before an audience. Best regards, Allister On 10/10/07, Michael Tinsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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.
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