Has anyone connected a TFT monitor to their VAIO laptop ?

[tobiaseriksson]

I'm getting really desperate here
I wounder if there is ANYONE that has successfully been able to connect their TFT monitor to a SONY VAIO laptop?

If so, which SONY VAIO?

/Tobias

[mickb]

Yes, here at work we dual screen all the time. I use various TFT and CRT monitors. I have a VGN-A517B

[tabaheights]

Yes both at home and at work it should be no problem at all, what difficulties are you having?

[tobiaseriksson]

During bootup/login in WIndows XP Pro SP2 it interrupts the signal / shuts it down, so the external Samsung TFT says no signal.

What graphics card does you guys have?

I have a VAIO VGN-A295HP with a ATI Radeon Mobility 9200

I have tested the screen with Linux and then it works,
I am almost 100% certain that it has to be some settings thing.
It is just that I think I have tried everything now.
For example when I turn the TFT 90 degrees it will turn the picture on my laptop without showing anything on the TFT of course (neither before or after). It is so annoying, I have even ran the configuration app for the TFT where I can adjust the light strength, and then the screen is reachable, and I can even see the black (blank) screen change intensity.


/Tobias