[ltp] external monitor Fn-F7

[Alex Deucher]

On 5/27/05, David Tansey <djtansey@gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone setup a thinkpad to easily switch to external monitors and
> back (both cloning, side-by-side, and one-or-the-other)?
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> I found a website with an xorg.conf file, but that put them side-by-side
> and didn't like my laptop having a different resolution than my external
> LCD.
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> i'm trying i810switch, but am not having too much success. it says
> No LCD support for this chipset.
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> I have an x40 running ubuntu (hoary) with the intel i855 chipset. my
> external monitor is a 17 inch LCD with 1280x1024 native resolution.
> Ideally, I'd be able to switch to any external monitor (or projector.)
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> I'd also love to map Fn-F7 to toggle between laptop,external,both, (and
> if i'm lucky, cloning or side by side)
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Not at the moment.  Unfortunately X doesn't support dynamic
reconfiguration very well right now.  you care pretty much stuck with
your current config until you restart the X server.

You could start multiple X servers and then map them to fn-F7 using
ACPI and the ibm_acpi module then switch between them.

Alex

> thank for the tips!
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> david
>