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Date:      Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:15:57 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Kemian Dang <dangkm@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to use a external monitor on FB7/Gnome
Message-ID:  <20080425161557.GE86456@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <82f916c90804250734h6ca7d321haaa206b4dccc7752@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <82f916c90804250734h6ca7d321haaa206b4dccc7752@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 03:34:32PM +0100, Kemian Dang wrote:
> Dear All,
>=20
> I use a laptop with Freebsd 7.0 stable and Gnome 2.22, the graphic card is
> integrated nvidia go 6150.
> I want to  use a external monitor to support my work, but I find it gave =
no
> display when I plug the monitor, with the Fn + f4 key(this works in
> winodws).
> Seems no related topics in hand book / mailing list, so anyone could give
> some clue?

My dell laptop has a sysctl which you can use to enable the external vga
port. I just can't recall the name. Try 'sysctl -a|grep enable'.

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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