On 11/11/05, Anne Wilson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:What's your laptop brand? did you check you bios for setting? Some laptops has a configurable output on their bios.On Friday 11 Nov 2005 12:49, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I attached an external monitor to my laptop, but then tried the Fn
> keys to see what they do. F5 has a symbol of a black monitor to a
> white monitor. I presume this is what I did when I lost the local
> display, keeping the external one. F6 has a star on a black monitor
> and an arrow pointing to a white monitor. I don't know what that
> does. F7 has a black monitor with a pointing hand over it.
>
> Whatever the reason, I can't get back to having the display show on
> both the laptop and the CRT. Can someone please put me right?
>
OK - found the manual F6 and F7 are nothing to do with this. F5,
according to the manual, "Switches display output between the display
screen, external monitor (if connected) and both the display screen and
external monitor."
So it's not working. I found that the workaround is to boot with the
external monitor un-connected, but connect it during the bootup, before
X starts. Sounds like a 2006 bug to me.
Anne
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Since I'm running 2006 let me connect my output device and get back to you about this issue but I don't think is a bug. It worked fine on my 2005 installation, let me just try and I'll let you know.
No bug. Laptop output works fine on my HP laptop running 2006.
