In order to get video output to your external port, you'll need to use the hotkey (it's Fn-F8 on my Dell Latitude). You must do this in text mode, not graphics mode. If you don't have text displayed after you switch from panel display, there must be something wrong with your laptop.
Once you have text displayed on your external monitor you can configure XFree86 as described in the page I sent you.
Wolle wrote:
On Friday 12 September 2003 09:14, Dan Mergens wrote:
The way I have enabled my laptop setup is to switch XF86Config files on startup. The following is a helpful link for doing that:
http://www.mit.edu/~matthew1/c840/c840_setup.html
Your script says:
echo Laptop is in Dockingstation ...and then it pretends:
echo Disabling internal LCD Display for X11but it doesn't switch anything but the parameters. Switching modelines, color depth etc isn't the problem at all.
My problem isto have no useful output from my external VGA port at all. I think you are lucky to have your external output on by default, or switched by 'hardware', when connecting to your docking station. I do not have a dockung station. I'm satisfied with my external keyboard, external mouse and, if it's going to work, external CRT.
Thanks anyway Wolle
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