External monitor does not work unless connected at boot

[Agustin Lobo]

Peter,

If I look to the hardware info under winxp, I have
Mobile Intel 945 GM Express Chipset Family
If I do sudo ddcprobe, I get
Intel 82945GM Chipset Family Graphics Accelerated VGA BIOS

But I think that ubuntu hardy uses driver i810 for
intel 945 (don't know how to make sure though)

Should I still try i810switch or am I going to screw up my system?
What did you do to adapt it for the 945 chipset? Also, is this
likely to solve the second problem (very reduced brightness in
the laptop screen when the external display is on)?

Thanks

Agus

Peter Skensved wrote:
>   What video card is in your laptop ? If it is an intel i810 based
> chipset then you may want to google for i810switch . It allows you
> to toggle the external video on or off. I had to hack it slightly 
> to get it to support the 945 chipset but it works for me.
>                                      peter
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Original message to xorg:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm running ubuntu hardy on a Toshiba Portege M400
> laptop.
> 
> If I boot the laptop without the external
> monitor, then connect the external monitor
> and set up with urandr (or just xrandr), the external monitor
> does not display anything. Even if I restart
> X using the keyboard (Ctrl Alt <-). The display in the laptop
> behaves as if the external monitor
> were working.
> I have to reboot the laptop with the external monitor
> connected to it in order to get the external monitor working.
> And in this case, the external monitor works fine, but the
> laptop has very low brightness
> 
> Any way to solve these problems?
> 
> Thanks


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