On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:04 PM, nomad2002 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> > 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
> >
> I am using an old CRT at home and a LCD at the work site...
>
> I was thinking that I need to fiddle with /etc/X11/xorg.conf but
> various resolutions are working under Knoppix so I wasn't sure... I was
> thinking to try 800x600 and 1024x768 as defaults in xorg.conf...
When Knoppix works, what resolution is it using?
$ xrandr
carl
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