How to use a external monitor on FB7/Gnome

[Eric Schuele]

On 04/26/2008 04:29, Kemian Dang wrote:
> Hi Vince and Roland,
> 
> Thank you for the reply, but unfortunately, they did not work.
> 
> I closed the laptop, connected the monitor and restarted the laptop,
> "xrandr -q" only gave the information of integrated monitor, no
> external monitors' information and "xrandr --auto" did not give any
> information.

Some laptops require you to either enable the external VGA output in the
BIOS, and/or use a function key to enable the output.

> 
> I also tries "sysctl -a |grep enable", the output is:
> 
> kern.smp.forward_roundrobin_enabled: 1
> kern.smp.forward_signal_enabled: 1
> vm.swap_enabled: 1
> vm.swap_idle_enabled: 0
> vm.idlezero_enable: 0
> vfs.nfs.nfs_directio_enable: 0
> vfs.vmiodirenable: 1
> net.inet.tcp.sack.enable: 1
> net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable: 1
> net.inet.sctp.ecn_enable: 1
> hw.firewire.phydma_enable: 1
> hw.pci.enable_msix: 1
> hw.pci.enable_msi: 1
> hw.pci.enable_io_modes: 1
> hw.apic.enable_extint: 0
> machdep.enable_panic_key: 0
> security.bsd.suser_enabled: 1
> 
> There seems no entry about monitor -- If I miss something please advice me.
> 
> PS. The laptop is a Compaq Presario V3431AU.


-- 
Regards,
Eric


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