PJ_Heathrow
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Hi all. So over the last few days have taken an oldish Toshiba Satellite L500 laptop, installed a new internal 500GB disk & installed/configured Mint 21(Vanessa), tweaking accordingly. Next step. head to the mancave, unplug the existing windows lappy from the external display (Dell E2210 24" monitor) & keyboard & replace with said newly configured mint variant.
So I plug in the display (VGA) & keyboard (USB) & boot.
As the system boots, I can see the boot sequence on both screens (external & laptop), replaced with the mint logo on both as the OS finishes loading & prepares for log-in.
Then - it gets quirky. Both screens are blank, with interval attempts to do something (assuming some form of sync/device check attempt), but nothing.
If I unplug the display, after a few seconds the laptop screen springs to life & I can use as normal (including the USB keyboard which was recognised automatically).
Updated drivers, nothing new found.
Checked display, of course it can only see the primary as no other is logged in.
The external monitor is fine as I have been successfully using it with my windows laptop.
Any obvious things I am missing or ideas?
Does Mint 21/Vanessa have any bugs related to this area?
I've played with the external display, adjusted where possible but nada. Completely flummoxed at this stage, so any help/ideas greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Pierre
So I plug in the display (VGA) & keyboard (USB) & boot.
As the system boots, I can see the boot sequence on both screens (external & laptop), replaced with the mint logo on both as the OS finishes loading & prepares for log-in.
Then - it gets quirky. Both screens are blank, with interval attempts to do something (assuming some form of sync/device check attempt), but nothing.
If I unplug the display, after a few seconds the laptop screen springs to life & I can use as normal (including the USB keyboard which was recognised automatically).
Updated drivers, nothing new found.
Checked display, of course it can only see the primary as no other is logged in.
The external monitor is fine as I have been successfully using it with my windows laptop.
Any obvious things I am missing or ideas?
Does Mint 21/Vanessa have any bugs related to this area?
I've played with the external display, adjusted where possible but nada. Completely flummoxed at this stage, so any help/ideas greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Pierre