[gNewSense-users] Re: dual monitors question

[Bernie Schelberg]

I found I had to boot my netbook with the external monitor attached for
it to detect it.
There's probably some X configuration somewhere to get it to work
better, but I never really figured it out...

HTH,
Bernie

> I have a IBM Lenovo T500 laptop with a 15' monitor.
> 
> I wanted to connect an external monitor to my laptop and use the laptop
> monitor as primary and the external as secondary display.
> 
> Before I attempted, the Screen Resolution app indicated that the display
> was the 15" Laptop correctly. I connected the external and could not get
> it to work including clicking Detect Display in the Screen Resolution
> app and there the display was indicated as Unknown. I fixed that by
> running 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' from  the command line  before
> the Gnome login.
> 
> How do I set up for dual monitors for gNewSense?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dennis