On Nov 20, 2010, at 1:34 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > It doesn't work with an external monitor at home. That is, it sees the > external monitor, but I can't get it to clone the signal to the external > monitor. The monitor in question is an LCD that runs at the same native > resolution as the laptop. The nVidia Settings GUI sees it, but I > haven't hit on the secret combination of settings that will make it > clone the laptop display to the external monitor. The external monitor > is receiving some kind of signal, because the "no signal detected" > message disappears as soon as I plug it into the VGA output on the > laptop. But it remains black regardless of what I do.
What I would suggest is to get yourself an Ubuntu USB stick, boot with that with the monitor connected. I have yet to have that fail, straight out of the box. Using the live 'CD' setup, I get into graphics mode on most any system I've tried it on. This is how I test laptops with broken screens to see if anything is on them and everything else is functioning. I'm suggesting this because it appears a lot of flailing is going on, with something that should be fairly simple. I'm thinking if you can test it with a generic setup, as the Ubuntu live is. Russ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
