[plug] External monitor on sony laptop

[Brad Campbell]

W.Kenworthy wrote:
> I too am happy with it, but have to use it at the moment - too flat out
> to do much.
> 
> I still have to sort out those items as well - their not critical, but I
> do have to something about the tiny eject button on the front of the dvd

Oh will you look at that! I did not even see that button.. that makes life easier for me..!
I've got the multimedia stop key mapped to eject at the moment, but of course I need to boot into 
windows, the quickstart av mode or linux to eject.. that makes life much easier.

I shrunk my XP partition down to 8.5G and left the 5GB system restore partition there for the 
purposes of buggering around with later..
I've done a full Ubuntu install and that "just works", but I'm having a crack at a late debian 
testing install now to see how that goes..

I've got a little time up my sleeve in the next couple of weeks so I'm sure I'll give it heaps in 
the meantime.

If I can get a reasonable 1024x768 out of both panel and external I'm happy as my projector is 
1024x768 native. Cloned would be better however I've used a nasty hack of x11vnc on one display and 
a vnc viewer on the other previously to clone them <retch>

Lovely little machine though.. really impressed with it.
It's a shock to the system to have up to date hardware with everything built in.. no more usb wifi 
dongles or cardbus usb2 cards  or pcmcia modems.. yay!

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