Laptop X & Projector confusion

[Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us>]

Over the weekend I did a presentation using my FC6 Acer laptop. I had a 
nasty surprise when I booted up and it failed to go into X! Repeatedly. On 
this laptop I usually need to have the exterior monitor/projector plugged 
in at boot up time to get the video out to be turned on, and so this is 
what I had done.

As a final step before moving the presentation to the windows side of the 
laptop I tried booting without the projector plugged in. It worked fine, I 
was able to then connect the video cable and move on ahead the 
presentation. Luckily I was early and there was no audience, so I had a 
fairly private crummy 10 minutes in working this out.

So, was the projector reporting something back to the kernel or X? When 
the projector was plugged in before starting X, I could not even run the 
display configuration tool. It reported that it failed on card0 and card1. 
There is only one card. Hmmm.

Erich


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