laptop's attached screen resolution.
Hugh Sasse
hgs at dmu.ac.uk
Wed Dec 12 16:02:46 UTC 2007
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 December 2007 07:02:29 am Hugh Sasse wrote:
> > I'm using a Toshiba ["satellite pro"?] laptop plugged into an LCD
> > monitor. When I boot I see the Kubuntu logo plus the progress bar
> > in the middle of the screen. Then the screen goes blank, and I get
> > the login screen. Unlike on the laptop itself, this appears
> > stretched so that the boxes for the username and password are just
> > off the bottom of the screen, towards the right hand side. This
[...]
>
> Hmm . . . . Does sound familiar. I have an older KVM where I have to adjust
> the monitor's screen settings when I flip from a Windoze box to my Linux box.
>
> Try plugging the monitor directly into the Laptop (bypass the KVM).
> Boot into Kubuntu and see what happens.
>
> Another issue may be that you have your laptop open, and the laptop screen is
The laptop screen is blank when the monitor is plugged in.
> the primary. You may need to find the "Function" or modifier keystroke to
> make the external monitor the primary. This will allow the external
> Monitor's resolution to rule the day.
>
> Once you plug the laptop into the monitor like that, try switching to a
> console session (by hitting [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[F2] ) and logging in.
Did that, and was able to add the correct resolution to the xorg.conf
file, and all was well after a reboot. [Probably a reboot wouldn't be
necessary, but it was The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work.]
>
> You could edit your xorg.conf file and manually add a resolution that should
> be supported by your monitor at that point.
>
1024 x 768
Now I have issues about the real mouse being intermittent.
Thank you,
Hugh
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