Re: Re: Laptop + VGA + X

[Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda <hfmlacerda@yahoo.com.br>]

Joel Roth wrote:
> Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > The monitor of my laptop is broken, thus the screen frequently becomes
> > white. Then, it is needed to turning off the energy and restart the laptop
> > (not always with success).
> >
> > Therefore, I plugged a VGA monitor. However, the VGA monitor does not work
> > when X is active. (It works very fine with framebuffer, though.)
> >
> > How to enable Xorg to use a VGA monitor plugged to a laptop?
>
> I use a command like this:
>
> xrandr --output LVDS1 --auto --output VGA1 --auto

Hi Joel.

I just tried your suggestion, but got this message:

hudson@musix:tmp$ xrandr --output LVDS1 --auto --output VGA1 --auto
warning: output LVDS1 not found; ignoring
warning: output VGA1 not found; ignoring
hudson@musix:tmp$

Thanks.
Hudson

P.S.: The desktop manager I am using is Fluxbox (1.3.5-2).