[ltp] external monitor Fn-F7

[Norman Walsh]

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/ James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh wrote:
|> / David Tansey <djtansey@gmail.com> was heard to say:
|> | Has anyone setup a thinkpad to easily switch to external monitors and
|> | back (both cloning, side-by-side, and one-or-the-other)?
|>=20
|> I've never gotten side-by-side working, but I find that switching to
|> a console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) then toggling with Fn-F7, then switching
|> back to X allows me to switch between internal, external, and both.=20
|
| Which distro are you running?  Since switching to the 2.6 kernel, in
| SuSE, I've found I can only switch before Linux starts loading.  I'm
| currently running SuSE 9.3 on an R31.

Debian with a home grown 2.6.11.3 kernel and X.Org's 6.8.2 X11 and the
stock drivers.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Everything should be made as simple as
http://nwalsh.com/            | possible, but no simpler.

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