Hi, I am testing the grub2-efi from factory on an exotic machine... I have installed the grub2-efi as prescribed and got it running... generated a nice cfg (attached) file and hit the run button... Now I want to be able to run my laptop in two modes A. with the laptop screen only B. with an external display only. this was relatively easy before... I just have my nice xorg.conf (attach) with refit I have no issues to get what I want... now grub2... case B I obtain without issue... I plug my screen, start the machine... all the boot process takes place on the external screen (an improvement compared with refit when only the X was started on the external all the pre-X stuff was on the LCD.) If I start my machine without the external screen plugged I get a black screen. I can access the machine via ssh, and I can see the failures of Xorg(.0.log.old attached). I have checked and I tried to see what happens but with no success... to make things even more complicated I tried with nouveau and it works in scenario A but not in scenario B... The problem with nouveau is that the quality is so poor, in two aplications that I use quite a lot that is not a real option. Now I tested few more things... external screen plugged && laptop lid open result black screen external screen unplugged && laptop lid open result black screen external screen unplugged && laptop lid closed result black screen external screen plugged && laptop lid closed result happiness... Any suggestions? I have added a successful xorg log too.. Alin -- Without Questions there are no Answers! ______________________________________________________________________ Alin Marin ELENA Advanced Molecular Simulation Research Laboratory School of Physics, University College Dublin ---- Ardionsamblú Móilíneach Saotharlann Taighde Scoil na Fisice, An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://alin.elenaworld.net ______________________________________________________________________