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Hey everyone, for the past few weeks I have wanted to use my desktop monitor for my laptop as well. When I hook it up to my laptop via hdmi ...
- 07-17-2011 #1Just Joined!
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Using an external monitor on 10.10
Hey everyone, for the past few weeks I have wanted to use my desktop monitor for my laptop as well. When I hook it up to my laptop via hdmi the laptop screen freezes and I have to restart my laptop. It never displays on my monitor. Any help is appreciated
- 07-18-2011 #2Just Joined!
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Do you have another OS, like Windows? If so, does it work there?
- 07-18-2011 #3Just Joined!
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Yeah it works without a hitch in windows 7
- 07-18-2011 #4Just Joined!
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Have you tried FN button along with F5 or one of the other f# buttons?
- 07-18-2011 #5Just Joined!
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On my laptop, Ubuntu 11.04 disables my FN (but not F1-12) keys. Can you start up Ubuntu with the external already connected? I can't see my external if it isn't already connected at boot. If you can see something, try a Recovery Mode boot (from the grub menu). If not, ????
- 07-19-2011 #6Linux User
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My Thinkpad 60 (intel video card) works fine in with an external monitor, or projector. It runs Gentoo. My System76 Serval (derv7) with an NVIDA video card, works with a monitor and a projector, again it runs Gentoo.
Early in the Live of my Thinkpad r60 when running Fedora also worked as well.
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