Ill poke around in my bios ; thanks. On Nov 13, 2014 8:09 PM, "Lennart Sorensen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:05:50PM -0500, David Thornton wrote: > > I had a T510 which was great ( heavy but great) , I liked the keyboard , > > and the graphics card was good enough to play games. Optical drive , good > > wireless, limited by power ( only got like 2 hours at best) . Linux > support > > was also good. Performance was good. I had a dual scren dock , and the > > device could drive both via DVI. > > > > Then I lost the 5 key and IT issued me a X240.. Lighter, newer, small > > screen, nice and snappy, no optical drive, much better battery life. I > feel > > cramped on the screen. There are screen options. 1366 X 768 , 1366 X 768 > > touchscreen, and a larger one 1920 x 1080 all 12.5 inches. I have the > > 1366X768 non touchscreen and I feel cramped. > > > > I have a dock for this x240.. but the laptop can't drive both screens > with > > DVI.. One has to be VGA. I dunno if that's a limitation of the particular > > dock that I got, or if that's a limitation of the video card, but after > > going Digital I can't stand VGA. Too fuzzy. > > If you have a Pro dock (Which has DVI, DP and VGA), you can only use DVI > _or_ DP on the dock. The Ultra dock has a second pair of ports which > allow DP _or_ HDMI (but not at the same time), so with that dock you can > do any combo of two DP, DP + HDMI, or DP + DVI. If you want two DVI you > need a DP to DVI adapter for the second DP port. With the Pro dock, you > can still do that using a DP to DVI adapter connected to the DP on the > x240 itself, and the second display connected to DP or DVI on the dock. > Essentially the pro dock only has one digital connection from the laptop > to the dock, so only one of the digital ports can be used at a time. > The VGA on the dock is a copy of the one on the laptop and the one on > the laptop does not work when docked. The DP port is seperate though. > > > So the keyboard. I have had some trouble getting my head/hands around > this > > new keyboard. For one f1 f2 f3 function keys don't "work" out of the box > . > > They all do their "special purpose" like volume , display changing , mute > > etc. I had to tell it : by default when I press the F1 key .. it send an > > F1! > > Also I can't get "end" to work without also pressing "Fn" . ... Which I > now > > call the "effin" key if you know what I mean. > > Don't then have an Fn lock option to make it always do that instead? > Often there are bios options on thinkpads to pick the settings you like > (such as swapping control and fn if you prefer the other order). > > -- > Len Sorensen > > > --- > GTALUG Talk Mailing List - [email protected] > http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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