On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 01:57:10 -0500, Julian L. Hunter wrote: > Hello, > > I have asked part of this question before and tried all the > feedback, but still no luck. All I want to do is have the display a) on > the LCD or b) on the external monitor on my desk. Seems simple enough > right? Well after many weeks of frustration and despair, I am still at > square one. I have tried the <fn>-<f5> combination (which is what works > under Windows), no luck. So then I tried the Display "Option" "CRT", and > this causes the LCD not to show the picture but does not display it on > the CRT (so no diaply at all). I followed this by "BIOS" another option > I found somewhere on the web, still no luck. So I have a few questions, > > 1) Is this possible with the current Trident driver (I took the one > from http://xfree86.org/~alanh on Dec 1, 2002)? If so, how would I go > about this? > > 2) The key codes do not show up anywhere (the <fn>-<f5> ones), how > do these normally work on other laptops,are they intercepted by the BIOS > and then processed or shoudl they generate key codes? > > 3) Is there a list of TODO's for the trident driver? > > 4) Finally, Has anyone on thsi list gotten this working? > > If I ama asking these questions in the wrong place please let me know.
It's very machine specific and very much to do with the BIOS and the handling of those special Fn keys. Try and see if your BIOS is up to date, that sometimes fixes problems. Other than that, I know it works on some laptops but not all - again for the reason of machine specifics aren't handled properly. Alan. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
