[ltp] video switching problem on Thinkpad X60

Hendrik-Jan Heins linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:14:17 +0200


xrandr is your solution.

Hendrik-Jan

2007/10/25, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Khosrow Hassani wrote:
> > I am running Debian Etch with kernel 2.6.18 and
> > acpi-ibm support enabled on my IBM Thinkpad x60. the
>
>  ...
>
> > problem is that I cannot switch between my LCD and the
> > external monitor. I traced the problem and found out
> > that
>
> That will not work through ibm-acpi.  You need X.org to do it on a X60, and
> that means something newer than Debian stable.
>
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