[ltp] F7 Video Switching on a T42?

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Hi all,

I'm pretty dedicated to Debian, but to play around with an application that 
was brutally Debian-unfriendly (Intel's VTune), I installed some version of 
SUSE on a USB drive I had.  SUSE pre-configured my T42 pretty nicely.  One 
thing that was caught me off guard was that the F7 video toggling actually 
seemed to work.  I had pretty much given up on this with Debian.  Actually, 
multi-head in X.org isn't exactly smooth-sailing even without the hotkey 
toggling, but SUSE seems to have it all rolled out rather nicely.

Has anyone figured out how SUSE does it (specifically F7 toggling)?  Is it a 
kernel hack (maybe to the ibm_acpi module)?  Most solutions that exist for 
other distributions are able to be ported into Debian, but I'm not sure about 
this one.

- Sukant