[NTLUG:Discuss] Video Help Needed

[George Lass]

--- On Wed, 7/7/10, Mike Hart <just_mike_y at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mike Hart <just_mike_y at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Video Help Needed
> To: "NTLUG Discussion List" <discuss at ntlug.org>
> Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 6:33 PM
> If you don't see a picture on the vga
> port, it is unlikely that you will see it at all. 
> 
> However, there is one more thing you can try & I should
> have described this before.  Be sure to have your
> external monitor (VGA or DVI) plugged into the laptop and
> powered on BEFORE you power on the laptop.  You are
> trying to get the BIOS to detect the hardware and set the
> dual screen mode before the xserver kicks in. (You can poke
> around the BIOS settings and see if you have an option to
> select the video to BOTH the internal and external
> monitors.) Without the nvidia server, your video is only
> going to behave the way it sets itself up at boot.
> 
> good luck!
> 
> 
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I'll give that a shot tonight and let you know.  BTW, did I mention that the laptop also has an S-Video output and that doesn't seem to "ghost" either.  Well I've got 3 power up's to do tonight, maybe I'll get lucky.

Thanks,

George