Cliff, you'll need to read up on defining multiple displays in xorg.conf<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 06/12/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">walt</b> <<a href="mailto:walt@helvatron.co.uk">walt@helvatron.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I am not sure Ubuntu is the problem. If the display works on the laptop its<br>more likely to be a key combination you need to use to switch output from
<br>the local display to the external port such as Fn (usually in blue) and then<br>another key in the top row such as one of the function keys with a<br>monitor/screen symbol on it. Often you have to press more than once to get
<br>the output mode you need.<br><br>Walter<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:watford-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk">watford-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>[mailto:<a href="mailto:watford-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk">
watford-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>] On Behalf Of Cliff Deamer<br>Sent: 06 December 2007 19:50<br>To: <a href="mailto:watford@mailman.lug.org.uk">watford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>Subject: [Watford] Seperate VGA display
<br><br>I am using an old laptop running Ubuntu 7.10 and I need to connect a<br>larger display. In Windows this would be easy, just plug the alternate<br>display into the VGA socket but in Linux this does not work.<br>Any ideas?
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