On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:43 PM, nomad2002 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> > nomad2002 wrote:
> >
> >> Unfortunately the luminosity on my laptop screen has failed[1]. I am
> >> using an external monitor but I am not able to use my FC8 system to
> >> display to the external monitor, I am using Knoppix which works fine.
> >>
> >> What tips or pointers should I track down to try to get the FC8 system
> >> to output to the external monitor?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Is that not a hardware thing?
> >
> > Most laptops have an additional meta-key called "Fn", on the ones I've
> > seen. Isn't it something like Fn+F8 (Dell 1420) to cycle through video
> > output options. Maybe the F8 (eg) key even has an icon or secondary label?
> >
> > Have you read the fine manual for your laptop? :-)
> >
> > What laptop model is it?
> >
> > Regards,
> > ..jim
> >
> >
> >
> The way I got the external monitor to work with Knoppix was to go into
> BIOS and make sure the external monitor is available. Once I did that
> Knoppix came up. I tried this after FC8 wouldn't work knowing it should
> work (hurray for Knoppix once again).
>
> The [Fn] key under FC8 has never worked on my system (I know what Lan
> means about FC8). So for instance if I wanted a change in brightness or
> a change in speaker volume via the [Fn] key I had to do it before
> logging into FC8. Note that the FC8 login screen does appear on the
> external monitor but once log in is made the external monitor is blank.
>
> Laptop is Fujitsu Lifebook C-Series circa 2002...
>
Is it possible that F8 is trying a resolution or frame rate that the
monitor can not display?
Can you boot F8 in single-user mode and see a display? If so, you
should be able to modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf to ask for something that
your monitor can show.
By the way, is this a flat-panel LCD monitor?
carl
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