On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:11:56 -0800 peasthope@shaw.ca wrote: > * Does anyone have an external display working on a laptop with a > contemporary Debian? Any tips or recipe? > Not quite, but it Just Works on my netbook, Ubuntu Netbook Remix about 10-ish. Try a Knoppix live CD: if it works with anything, that will do it, and it's pretty likely that anything Knoppix uses is available to Debian. Joe