On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Andreas Mielke wrote:

> I am using a IBM Thinkpad A20m with a ATI 3D Rage P/M Mobility card
> installed. XFree86 Version 4.3 supports this card using the ati-driver.
> Nevertheless, there is a small problem: I am not able to switch between
> the external and internal monitor with the Fn+F7 key. Pressing Fn+F7 on
> the thinkpad normally cycles between internal only, internal+external
> and external only. I already mentioned this problem in a previous
> message. A solution is to use the frame buffer device fbdev, where Fn+F7
> works fine.

> Is this a known problem for ati in Version 4.3? (Version 3.x does not
> have this problem).

This is intentional behaviour.  For now, switch outputs outside of X.

Marc.

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