Well, perhaps obvious, but check your BIOS to see if you can play with the setting there. Else, you probably need to configure X to know a second monitor is there, because it doesn't just know how to deal with it. (Windows is very good with this sort of thing though.) Try creating a screen config in your XF86Config, change your XServer Layout and see if that second output will work alone. Check here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2002/09/msg00449.html See here for much more info: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO/intro.html On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 12:07:48 -0500, Olwe Melwasul <olwe at cpinternet.com> wrote: > I've got FC2 up and running on a Presario 2100 (dual booting orig. XP). > I'm trying to use a separate CRT monitor through the video out. It works > fine in XP, but only in non-X startup for FC2 does it report to the CRT. > The regular LCD screen is fine, but why doesn't X want to see/deal with > my monitor? _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list