7805u Primary Display

I searched around a bit, so if this info is already out there and I missed it then I apologize.

I have a 7805u that mostly stays on my desk and is connected to an external LCD monitor via HDMI.

Traditionally, on laptops, I've been able to configure the primary display via the BIOS but there doesn't seem to be a whole lot configurable in the BIOS here. The only other laptop I've had with a similar BIOS auto-selected the external display as primary when it was plugged in. Does anyone know of an alternate way of setting the primary display device?

For background, the reason I do this is for convenience. I run only Linux and when you switch out of X into any VT/Terminal the display will always be on the primary display device at the time X started. No HUGE issue, but it'd be nice to not have to open up the laptop to see the display when I do this.

Thanks in advance!

 

What version of linux and what video driver are you using?
I ran into this problem last year. It was a video driver problem more specifically nvidia.
I cant remember the exact fix but its just like using windows drivers and that every computer is slightly different so one nvidia driver wont fix every computer. Try several linux driver types and age.

 

Linux ver: 2.6.27
Driver ver: 180.51

It's not related to Linux or the driver, though. This is a system thing, generally available to be configured via the BIOS. For example on the cheapy laptops I have laying around (an HP and a Dell) I can set the external display as the primary when available and then things like the POST and bootloader display there instead of on the built-in screen (obviously well before OS and driver loading).

Thanks for the reply.

 

I have the same setup.

I open up the laptop
Power it on
Press FN+F1 to turn off the display lights
And Press FN+F4 to switch to external monitor (Once OS has loaded the video driver)

 

Yeah, just wish there was a proper way to handle this. That way (similar to how I do it) still leaves the built-in display as the primary when X starts, so that is where it displays VTs.

 

Haven't tried on my 7805 but I had it fixed on my 6831 and back than it was a extreme issue for nvidia. Anyways, good luck than.

 

There are (or have been) a bunch of admittedly similar issues in nvidia linux drivers for sure... Thankfully I am not suffering from any of them.

Thank you for the well wishes. I think I will probably just have to accept that this isn't possible unless a much more highly configurable virus is created.