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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!EU.net!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Notebook -- LCD/External display switching Date: 16 Apr 1994 19:55:07 GMT Organization: Jordan Hubbard Lines: 14 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.94Apr16205407@whisker.hubbard.ie> References: <9410116.15230@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <JKH.94Apr11185809@sentnl.ilo.dec.com> <1994Apr15.135150.1013@gmd.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.hubbard.ie In-reply-to: veit@mururoa.gmd.de's message of Fri, 15 Apr 1994 13:51:50 GMT In article <1994Apr15.135150.1013@gmd.de> veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes: I would have understood the above request (Notebook!) to switching between external VGA and LCD screen, not virtual screens. I have my doubts that syscons can detect the highly machine/video card specific methods to output between connectors. You're right - I didn't read the guy's request thoroughly enough. Sorry guys! I was wrong, there is no easy way to do LCD->external display switching in software. Most laptops don't even support software switching; you need to hold down a key while it's booting or forget it. Jordan -- Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Raving lunatic