Arg, resolution problems on laptop/monitor

[Christopher J. Bottaro]

>> Hello,
>> A while ago, I posted a question on to setup my FC3 install to detect if
>> my laptop is plugged into a monitor and if so, use a certain
>> resolution/modeline and if not, use another.  Someone suggested that I
>> have both resolutions and modelines in my xorg.conf and simply use
>> ctrl-alt-+ (or ctrl-shift-+ or whatever the combo is) to change
>> resolutions based on
>> if I'm using the monitor or not.  Well that didn't work for me.  The key
>> combo doesn't do anything.
> 
> Running a laptop? Take care: the + or - keys are the ones from the keypad,
> and on a laptop the keypad keys might be emulated w/ another additional
> key to press (on my Dell it's the Fn key -> CTRL+ALT+Fn+/ and
> CTRL+ALT+Fn+;).

Hey,
Does it matter that I have a standard keyboard plugged into the laptop?  In
that case, the '-' and '+' to be used are the ones next to the backspace
key, right?
Thanks!