I'm having trouble getting anything to output from my X40 ThinkPad to an external VGA monitor. Under X, `xrandr -q` outputs the following regardless of whether or not the external monitor is plugged in:
% xrandr -q Screen 0: minimum 800 x 600, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768 default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm 1024x768 0.0* 800x600 61.0 Pressing Fn+F7 and typing `xrandr --output VGA --auto` has no effect...the external monitor remains totally blank. The only way I can get anything to display externally is to plug the external monitor in, then boot up. In this case the laptop screen remains blank and the external monitor displays everything -- and fuzzily, as it's outputting 1024x768 to a 1280x1024 display. And no combination of alternating Fn+F7 key-presses and variations of xrandr commands can get the laptop screen to not be blank. I had to switch "Boot Display Device" in the BIOS from "ThinkPad LCD" to "Analog (VGA)" or "Both" for this to work. I would've thought "Both" would send output to both the external and internal displays -- and I thought I had some recollection of that happening -- but my trials this morning show the Laptop screen remaining blank. In any case, having to re-boot the machine with the external monitor plugged in doesn't seem like a reasonable solution. Thanks for any help, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110501173517.ga7...@s70206.gridserver.com