General Procedure For Getting An External Monitor Going?

[battleshooter]

Sup Guys.

What's the general procedure for getting a external monitor to work? I mean, if it doesn't work at boot , the Wizard can't seem to find it, pressing any combination of Fn doesn't help, how would you go about getting it going? In particular, mine's an AOC 7F connect to a M2000 laptop. I should be around to answer any questions for the next hour. I'm browsing through out the forum trying to figure this. BTW it doesn't have to be dual monitor.

Battleshooter

Edit: It's sensed in xorg.conf, so I'm messing with it. I also tried Pizzagood's instructions and N00b's. They sound great but I think I'm having difficulty because I'm using a laptop.

[battleshooter]

Sweetness. Solved. Installed ATI drivers pet and it's all sussed.