Boot to external monitor with laptop monitor switched off.Difficult task.

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 23:14 -0700, Anthony Renaud wrote:
> Trying to do the task highlighted on the message title the best I can
> get is: both monitors turned on but on the external monitor just the
> background image and the mouse/trackpad pointer,on the laptop monitor
> the rest WITHOUT the mouse/cursor pointer,and I cannot do any useful
> task just turn off the computer.The GUI app ubuntu has to supposedly 
> configure both monitors just does not work for me.The XOrg application
> xrandr using the command line could that be of any use? Or change
> anything in XOrg configure files?

Cripes, I'm seeing your text inside a "box", using Evolution. Happens
every time I get email from someone using Yahoo... 

At any rate, what kind of video adapter do you have? If nVidia, you may
have to play with the nVidia X-Server Settings utility. Then allow it to
write out the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, once you have it right. Then
logout-login again. I have no clue regarding other cards. :) Ric

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