[clue-tech] external video on laptop

[dennisjperkins at comcast.net]

Yesterday, someone posted a question asking how to force his laptop to use external video because the screen is broken. I found something in an article this morning that I think will do the trick. 

xrandr --output VGA 

It might be necessary to disable internal video first: 

xrandr --output LVDS -off 


If you need to specify the resolution, try these: 

xrandr --output VGA -s 1024x768 

or 

xrandr --output VGA --mode 1924x768 

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