boot Opensuse11 live cd on external monitor

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Hi,
My LCD of my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop broke. I am using an external CRT monitor. Works fine with my current Mandriva 2008 setup. I use the function key + F8 to switch from lcd output to CRT output. No problems there.

How can I boot OpenSuse 11 and force the output on my CRT?
Can anybody help me on this? Your help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

DJ

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The general rule of thumb is that your laptop needs to support that kind of setting in your BIOS because during the initial bootstrap environment you have limited options.

There <may> be a solution modifying the display driver configuration during the install, but I haven’t seen it so if possible probably would require pre-loading a config file or modifying the installation media.