On 31 May 2001 13:54:12 +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thursday 31 May 2001 05:40, Pedro "I." Sanchez wrote: > > While on an X session, and if connected to an external monitor, I can > > switch the video output to either the flat panel (LCD) OR to the > > external monitor by pressing Fn-F7 (this is the CRT/LCD switch function) > > but not to both devices simultaneously.This quite annoying to me when > > doing presentations. > > > > I dual boot this laptop with Window NT. When running NT, Fn-F7 cycles > > the video output as LCD--CRT--LCD/CRT--LCD--CRT--LCD/CRT..., so I know > > the laptop can drive both video outputs simultaneously. Also, I just > > noticed that selecting "Full Screen" mode in VMware while running in CRT > > mode switches the display to both LCD and CRT simultaneously! > > That is very strange. What version of the kernel do you use?
2.2.18 > Do you use the frame-buffer device? Hmm, How do I know? (I guess the answer is then no ;) > > I used to have a problem on my Thinkpad T20 with X server version <=4.0.2 > which meant that Fn-F7 would do nothing at all if I was in X. This was very > strange because I could switch to a console and Fn-F7 would work perfectly. Oops, my situation is exactly the opposite. I can do the (OR) LCD/CRT switching while on X but nothing happens when I am in console mode (CTL-Alt-F1 for example). I though this was normal but now you make me wonder whether my configuration is really weird. > At the time I was using the FBDEV X server, so having two FB applications > operating in different ways was quite weird. > > I am not certain that my problem was solved by upgrading the X server, I was > also tracking the new kernels at the time and it could have been a kernel > upgrade. It works fine now with kernel 2.4.4 but broke with ~2.4.0. > Well, I have no plans to fiddle with 2.4 at this time. > I hope this helps your investigation. > Thanks for the reply. Just that helps! -- Pedro
