How to boot straight to VGA out?

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    freethrowking

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    My LCD cable is glitchy and not working. VGA out shows picture on boot up but goes black after bootup screen. How can I boot straight to VGA out so the picture stays on the external monitor? Can it be done without using the stock LCD?
     
    freethrowking, Oct 5, 2011
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    I have an old laptop which I want to use with an external monitor as the default display.

    It's a Dell Inspiron 5160 and I'm using the normal VGA output for the monitor.

    The laptop is in a cabinet, and while I can get to the on/off switch, it's not easy to do the Fn+F8 toggle to get the external display to show.

    Question is: can I set up the laptop to automatically favour the external display on startup? I've had a look in the desktop options but there's nothing obvious.

    Maybe a bios setting to force it to external display? Or is there a little script I can put into startup that replicate the Fn+F8 toggle?

    Any ideas gratefully received!
     
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    Yeah, it can be done without using the stock LCD.
    I have tried 2 times
     
    Wapoc, Jan 12, 2012
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