avoid nvidia?

[Andy Green]

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On Thursday 04 December 2003 13:30, Allan Metts wrote:

> --*-- No joy at all using an external CRT.  Anything graphical on my
> external monitor gets garbled -- no matter what I do.  Toggling the
> internal/external monitor key on my laptop typically garbles the laptop's
> own LCD panel as well.

Could this be an Inspiron 5150?  I had a similar disease - most bizarre 
horizontal juddering on the external monitor.  I believe it is a problem with 
the Dell BIOS not initing the second head properly.  Workaround is to do 
Alt-F8 DURING TEXT MODE BOOT - before the entry to the graphical bootscreen.  
Let it come up on the external monitor, then you can use twinview fine.

- -Andy
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