[plug] External monitor on sony laptop

[W.Kenworthy]

i810 switch was it, there is no bios option.

Now I am trying to get two screens via "MonitorLayout", but its only
recognising one screen - more googling :(

The laptop is 1360x768 and the ext LCD is 1280x1024, and I either have
no laptop display and a nice external, or a nice laptop and real crappy
ext display.  I need a happy medium of both being usable! (and live at
the same time without restarting X or rebooting)  And it was working so
well on the dell with a radeon ...

BillK




On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 11:39 +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> W.Kenworthy wrote:
> 
> > Help!
> > My new sony lappy is working great - except for external monitor!
> > 
> > It appears that the monitor switch key combination is software driven
> > and not active under linux, and the external monitor socket comes up not
> > enabled on boot.
> > 
> > Anyone seen a solution to this?
> 
> What graphics chipset does it have?  If it's Intel (the only sensible
> choice for a Linux laptop), then "i810switch crt on" should do the
> trick.  (Installing i810switch may be required first.)
> 
> If it's Nvidia, I believe that Nvidia have a magic tool to make it all
> work.
> 
> If it's ATI, I'm not sure.
> 
> Cameron
> 
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