Latitude D610 Display in Fedora Core 3

Question

Hi, My D610 is the dual-boot system (Windows XP and Fedora Core 3). When I installed Fedora Core 3, the external display was connected to the notebook. I want to run the Linux WITHOUT the external display. But the screen becomes blank after it displayed some startup information. It looks like it is trying to display on the external display which is not connected. If I start the computer the external display connected, the info is displayed on the external display and then I could switch to the notebook display by using the key combination for switching displays (in my machine Fn + CRT/LCD). Can someone tell me what I have to do in order to run the Linux on the notebook display? Any help will be really appreciated.

dsbInspiron · Answer

Start Linux with external monitor, then switch to notebook monitor (if you can, go ahead and unhook the external one).  Once their go to FC 3 hardware manager (I don't know what it is called, but where ever you would install new hardware), you should have an option for a display or a monitor.  From there you should be able to configure the new monitor, hopefully that will also update the information in config files as well, if not we can update those manually.

jooho · Answer

Hi, Thank you for your reply, but I couldn't find the hardware manager. I saw only the hardware browser. Can you tell me where I can find the hardware manager? Thanks.

dsbInspiron · Answer

I don't know what it is called in FC3, it is different for each distro, generally there should be a place where you can configure hardware components - similar to when you click on Device drivers in Windows.  I have never used FC, but I would really think there would be something like this.

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