Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

[Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>]

On 04/09/2015 02:22 AM, Bret Busby wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On a new installation of Debian 7 on an Acer "laptop" computer with an
> AMD Radeon R2 graphics adaptor, the external monitor does not work.
>
> The external monitor works with MS Win 7, with MS Win 8, with Debian
> 6, and with Ununtu 12.04 and with Ubuntu 14.04.
>
> On another Acer "laptop" computer with Debian 7 installed, the
> external monitor works with MS Win 8, and with Ubuntu 14.04, and not
> with Debian 7. That computer has an nVidia graphica adaptor, that has
> previously been mentioned on the list.
>
> Does Debian 7 work with external monitors?


I have no problems with two monitors, but I do things the easy way and 
use the SMXI script. http://smxi.org/
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Jimmy Johnson

Debian Jessie - KDE 4.14.1 - AMD 64 - EXT4 at sda12
Registered Linux User #380263