----- Original Message ---- From: Matthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de> To: Art Fore <art.fore@comcast.net> Cc: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 7:36:53 AM Subject: Re: [opensuse] external monitor with Suse 10.2 On Nov 30, 06 22:33:56 +0800, Art Fore wrote:

I am unable to get an external monitor to work with Dell Latitude D820 using the Fn +F8 key. This works with Windows and worked with Suse 10.1. Is there a new setting to change or is the a bug in Xorg, Suse, or the Nvidia driver. It partially works with the "nv" driver, but the display shrinks to about one fourth the width. With the "nvidia" driver, it does nothing.

This is a FAQ. The Fn+x keys never worked reliably, only by chance. Matthias --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias has spent quite a bit of energy on this list in the last couple of weeks trying to help me out with the same problem. Perhaps I can give back a bit by offering a precis of (my interpretation of) his comments: 1) The Fn-x keys are an m$ extension that doesn't (yet??) work in Linux 2) You can often enable the external port from the BIOS, so that it simply tracks what's going on at the LCD (mine is a Toshiba, but it does appear to offer this, so I'll have to check that out if all else fails for me) 3) You can also enable it in some drivers by using SaX to set up a dual-headed mode. If you enable dual-head "clone" mode, then the output to the external video mimicks what's on the LCD. Very interestingly, however, you can set up _different_ resolutions, scan rates, etc. on the two different outputs, so for example, mine has been able to generate 1280x800 on the LCD while compressing that to 1024x768 on the external port. If the driver that does this didn't keep crashing, I'd be using option 3 :) but for now, it looks like I might be stuck with option 2 and a generic driver (partly because something else changed with 10.2rc1) HTH Cheers, Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org