Problems with a laptop and an external monitor.
Posted: 26. Jul 2011, 14:59
Hi everybody,
I'm a total salix/slackware newbie. I wanted to bring my old laptop (compaq n1020v) to life and I decided to install Salix Lxde, but when I installed it and rebooted the system I got in trouble. The screen of the laptop is broken, so it's connected to an external monitor: after booting Salix, just before the login screen, the external monitor goes into power saving mode.
I think the OS doesn't recognize it as a monitor, or maybe the screen can't stand the resolution, I don't know.
The only one thing I know is that this happens with every distro I try (except with Damn small linux).
What could it be? I read somewhere that in some cases like this you have to edit xorg.conf or something else, but when I use the Salix installation cd as a terminal and I write /etc/X11/xorg.conf it gives me a "not found" error!
What can I do? Please help me, this is quite urgent...
I'm a total salix/slackware newbie. I wanted to bring my old laptop (compaq n1020v) to life and I decided to install Salix Lxde, but when I installed it and rebooted the system I got in trouble. The screen of the laptop is broken, so it's connected to an external monitor: after booting Salix, just before the login screen, the external monitor goes into power saving mode.
I think the OS doesn't recognize it as a monitor, or maybe the screen can't stand the resolution, I don't know.
The only one thing I know is that this happens with every distro I try (except with Damn small linux).
What could it be? I read somewhere that in some cases like this you have to edit xorg.conf or something else, but when I use the Salix installation cd as a terminal and I write /etc/X11/xorg.conf it gives me a "not found" error!
What can I do? Please help me, this is quite urgent...