External Monitor on laptop

[jbk]

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

>>I have Fc4 running on the laptop which has and LCD w/ max 
>>800x600 Res.
> 
Jerry Feldman wrote:
> What release. 

Fedora core 4, 2.6.13 kernel

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.

> You may want to edit your grub configuration
> in /boot/grub/menu.lst or /boot/grub/grub.conf.

So, do you have different menu options for the same kernel? 
Or does the showopts parameter allow you to select different 
modes? I will have to look at the kernel parameters.txt to 
see what options I have.

Thanks

> 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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