I have a System76 Laptop How do I use the seperate VGA Output

Asked by Michael A Stellato

I have a System76 Laptop. Running 12.04.1. I don't know how to get the VGA port to work.
Can anyone help?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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Does Fn + F7 not make it switch (look at the stickers on the keys)

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Michael A Stellato (michaelastellato) said :
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No it doesn't do anything for the display, just for the sound. Now I really screwed things up. I pressed fn F3 and now I can't get into the gui I just get a little black and white sign-in with name and password.
NOW Really HELP.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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What is the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

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Michael A Stellato (michaelastellato) said :
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I Just Had To Re-install Ubuntu 12.04.1