ubuntu 11.04 vga out problem!

jake the mus · 31 Aug 2011 at 18:57

Hi all, i am new to linux and loving it tbh

My only problem is haing just installed it on my laptop i cannot for the life of me work out how to get the display to show up on my monitor, :confused:

Wouldnt be a problem but the screen on my laptop is starting to crap out and i would like to be able to just plug my monitor lead in and use that instead, like i used to with windows! I am sure there is a simple way but i dont know it, ive not really used the terminal tho so i dont know if something is in there!

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.

BigglesPiP · 31 Aug 2011 at 22:10

Just press the voutmegabutton on your hibercombit eS3.141592654+ sub-notebook.

Or in short, what laptop exactly.

jake the mus · 1 Sep 2011 at 19:51

its an adent 5401, when i press the button that normally switches to vga out it does nothing, im stumped!

BigglesPiP · 2 Sep 2011 at 13:19

"Video Card nVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS 256MB (upto 1023MB with TurboCache)"

Yea, it doesn't work on nVidia cards. Make sure the nVidia driver is installed then use the nVidia control panel.

Or look into disper, I have this mapped to Fn+F7:

Code:

disper -r max -d auto -e -t right

jake the mus · 4 Sep 2011 at 19:34

thanks i will do that!