External Monitor on laptop

[Jerry Feldman]

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 09:48:31 -0400
jbk <jbk at mail2.gis.net> wrote:

> How do I utilize an external monitor on a laptop?
> 
> I have Fc4 running on the laptop which has and LCD w/ max 
> 800x600 Res.
> 
> I have a modern multi sync monitor (CRT) with at least 
> 1280x1024 Res possible.
> 
> The Bios is setup to detect and switch to the external, non 
> dual monitor mode. This is what I want.
> 
> When I boot, the monitor is detected and the text mode data 
> is printed to the screen, but the grub graphical boot loader 
> does not and the boot hangs with a kernel panic immediately 
> after executing init. It complains about not syncing.
What release. I routinely boot my laptop at BLU meetings with the
overhead, and sometimes at home with a KVM, and I've had no trouble
with GRUB.
What distro are you using???
You may want to edit your grub configuration
in /boot/grub/menu.lst or /boot/grub/grub.conf.

Note the vga specification in the one below. It could be something like
this that is messing you up. That is normally set up by your distro
when you perform the install.

kernel (hd1,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc6 vga=0x31a
selinux=0 splash=verbose acpi=off resume=/dev/hda7 showopts

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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