Setting up a second monitor

[Daniel Carrera]

Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
>> I just tried that with my laptop and it works, but only after 
>> rebooting. Try this:
>>
>> 1. Plug the LCD monitor on your laptop's VGA-out.
>> 2. Reboot.
>>
>> Does that work? If you are lucky it might not need rebooting.
> 
> Rebooting does not work for me. The external monitor is not
> detected at all -- or at least nothing displays on it.

Jean, could you please run this command and post the result here?:

lspci | grep VGA

This will give us a list of the VGA devices that Linux can see. In my 
case there is only one line (btw, lines are long and wrap around). In 
your case there should be two lines.

If you see two lines, please send me a copy of this file:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Also make a copy of that file ("cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf ~/"). We'll need 
to fiddle with it and there's a chance we'll break it.

Don't forget to past the output of 'lspci | grep VGA' here. We'll need that.

Cheers,
Daniel.
-- 
      /\/`) http://opendocumentfellowship.org
     /\/_/
    /\/_/   A life? Sounds great!
    \/_/    Do you know where I could download one?
    /