Hi folks -- after much straining I have a working debian/sid install on my new (recycled) laptop. a thinkpad 600E with neomagic nm220 video chipset. I have a working xorg.conf which unfortunately does not support the external vga. I vaguely recall having had to do something to enable the "switch to external vga" key on my last laptop, (Fn-F7 on this model) but that last laptop is unfortunately on the garbage heap now so I can't check my config file.
If someone can walk me through the basics I'd be very grateful. Do I need to add an extra screen, an extra monitor, some kind of a switch somewhere in the config... really, I can't tell you how much I would appreciate this -- I was absolutely humiliated in class today when my laptop wouldn't display on the external vga -- after all my sweat and tears getting debian to install at all in the 24 hours btwn when my laptop busted and when I had to get up in front of my students... anyway, enough sob story, thx for the help, matt
