Enabling the VGA Port in HP 2133

[Rick Bilonick]

On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 17:23 -0500, Arthur Johnson wrote:
> Did you completely power off your machine, plug in a live monitor, and
> turn it on?  Once it gets to X, you should have a mirrored display.
> 
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Rick Bilonick <rab at nauticom.net>
> wrote:
>         I'm running 8.10 on an HP 2133 using the vesa driver. (No
>         other driver
>         works.) Everything works fine except I have no output on the
>         VGA port. I
>         know it works because it worked under Fedora 8 and SLED 10.
>         
>         Does anyone have any idea on how I might get it to work?
>         
>         Rick B.

Yes, I've turned on the notebook with the monitor on and plugged into
the port. There is no display on the external monitor. I've tried using
xrandr: 

> xrandr --output vga --auto 

but no go.

Rick B.