[ltp] LinuxCare certified ThinkPads

James Hawtin linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:08:17 +0000 (GMT)



On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Bill Mair wrote:

> See http://www.linuxcare.com/labs/certs/ibm.epl
> 
> Quick question to anyone using XFree 4.0.x:
>     Can you switch between LCD Only/LCD+CRT/CRT Only using Fn+F7
>     without frying the XServer (the wonderful burning screen effect?),
>     the LinuxCare evaluation does not cover this.
> 
> I'm personally using a 770X, so experiences on this model are really
> of interest to me.
> 
> Bill
> 

Yup! I can, it requires an undated trident driver... It might have made it
into the CVS by now, if not mail me and I will send you a copy, I remind
you this is a test version. For example Acceleration does not work.. but
no burnie effect so it works for me :-)

James

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