laptop external video

[Konstantin Svist]

Chris Kottaridis wrote:
> My son just upgraded his laptop and I inherited his old one.
>
> It's a Dell Inspiron 1501.
>
> I have Fedora Core 8 on it.
>
> I haven't been able to figure out how to get it to send video out the
> video port in the back.
>
> When he had Windows on it you could toggle <ctrl>F8 to get it to show on
> the internal screen only, both the internal screen and the external
> screen and just the external screen.
>
> I haven't been able to figure out how to get anything to come out of the
> external video in FC8 yet.
>
> Any pointers ?
>
> Thanks
>     Chris Kottaridis    (chriskot at quietwind.net)
>
>   

I have the same model. Mine was configured with an ATI card, how about 
yours?
If it's ATI, you can install kmod-fglrx from livna repo and the external 
monitor should start working.
Not sure how to do it with other video cards and/or drivers..