[ltp] Simultaneous External and LCD display on T21

Friedemann Baitinger linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:01:18 +0200 (CEST)


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On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Keith Frechette wrote:

> D. Sen wrote:
> >>
> I can't seem to be able to have both my LCD and external CRT display on
> at the same time. Cycling through Fn+F7, I can get one or the other.
> (This isnt even an X issue, as I have the problem even with just a
> console display ...i.e right after booting, before entering startx.)
> <<
> 
> I know of no problem with this with the Caldera-based preload models. In 
> fact, we used a T21 with Caldera preload to drive Sam Palmisano's 
> LinuxWorld keynote presentation, with the external monitor going to the 
> main LinuxWorld projectors and the LCD allowing us to control the 
> presentation from behind the scenes. Which X server version are you using? 
> Also, does Tim Robert's "s3switch" utility properly enable simultaneously 
> display of monitor and LCD?

I am running RedHat 7.0 with manually installed XFree86-4.0.2 plus
Tim Robert's latest Savage driver and I am experiencing the same problem
as reported by D. Sen. I have not had an opportunity yet to test the
s3switch utility though.

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