-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 November 2003 16:08, Allan Metts wrote: > I have a laptop booting Fedora with a nVideo GeoForce4 440. The machine > boots up into X just fine, and everything looks great -- UNTIL I try to > send video to an external CRT. Then both the external CRT and the > laptop's LCD become totally scrambled. > > I've tried changing the defined monitor settings to match my CRT model, and > I've tried booting with the external CRT enabled. No dice. > > Can someone put me on the right trail to get this fixed? Does your laptop have a Fn-key combo to swap between the main LCD and external VGA? On my Inspiron 5150 I despaired of getting Twinview to work, due to very strange artefacts on the VGA port video only (as if the pixel clock was being modulated). However, I found that if I did Fn-F8 at boot-time, before the grub screen, then the BIOS correctly inited the second head, and twinview works great after that. So I would try that and see if there are any updated laptop BIOSes about. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/uPSpjKeDCxMJCTIRAsGgAKCDjAcqNR55zbOd9JSD99Fqvpgw3wCeNP1J slyWKv9wi8Gsf5DGYBf0Pd8= =tAQK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
