Has anyone gotten external VGA to work on a Thinkpad W530 or similar?

I'm running Debian and have the latest version of bumblebee installed,
which is working just fine. Pressing fn-F7 (the key with the projector icon
on it) causes the screen to blink for a moment, then come back with no
changes.

The Monitor Preferences list only one screen (I'm using MATE as my
desktop).


I've tried using xrandr, but VGA1 still says its disconnected.


michael at speed:~$ xrandr --addmode VGA1 1024x768
michael at speed:~$ xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1024x768 --right-of LVDS1
michael at speed:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2944 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS1 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
344mm x 193mm
   1920x1080      60.0*+   59.9     50.0
   1680x1050      60.0     59.9
   1600x1024      60.2
   1400x1050      60.0
   1280x1024      60.0
   1440x900       59.9
   1280x960       60.0
   1360x768       59.8     60.0
   1152x864       60.0
   1024x768       60.0
   800x600        60.3     56.2
   640x480        59.9
VGA1 disconnected 1024x768+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1024x768       60.0*

The monitor is on and plugged in.

If I can, I'd like to have my cake and eat it too. If not, I can switch to
the nouveau drivers, or even just use the Intel card if that's what it
takes.


Thanks,
Michael Moore
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