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Re: How to ignore laptop's LCD display?

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Steve Wendt wrote:
> On 09/17/11 11:45 am, Fred J. Tydeman wrote:
>
>> The real screen only shows a subset (perhaps 1280x960) of the image
>> (which can be panned) to get to any part of the full image.
>
> After boot, have you toggled the output (Fn-F7, I believe) so that only the external monitor is
> selected as output? There are three modes: a) LCD only, b) LCD+VGA, c) VGA only
>
> You could also load GACtrl, and try turning off LCD output there. It may not stick between reboots
> though, depending on what the BIOS does.

I don't know if this is relevant to the OP, but on my T60 Fn-F7 doesn't work if ACPI.PSD (which I 
need for SMP) is loaded. For some reason it captures the Fn-xx key strokes. If the developers could 
be persuaded to let them through Fn-F7 would probably work since it works if I rem out the ACPI 
related lines.

The work around on the T60 is to boot to another system, use Fn-F7 to get the display system in the 
desired state and then reboot eCS without powering down. Maybe the OP's laptop will behave the same way.

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How to ignore laptop's LCD display? "Fred J. Tydeman" <tydeman.consulting@sbcglobal.net> - 2011-09-11 21:01 +0000
  Re: How to ignore laptop's LCD display? "Alex Taylor" <mail.me@reply.to.address> - 2011-09-17 04:55 -0500
    Re: How to ignore laptop's LCD display? "Fred J. Tydeman" <tydeman.consulting@sbcglobal.net> - 2011-09-17 14:25 +0000
      Re: How to ignore laptop's LCD display? Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-09-17 09:26 -0700
        Re: How to ignore laptop's LCD display? "Fred J. Tydeman" <tydeman.consulting@sbcglobal.net> - 2011-09-17 18:45 +0000
          Re: How to ignore laptop's LCD display? Steve Wendt <spamsux@forgetit.org> - 2011-09-17 11:51 -0700
            Re: How to ignore laptop's LCD display? "James J. Weinkam" <jjw@cs.sfu.ca> - 2011-09-17 14:03 -0700
              Re: How to ignore laptop's LCD display? Steve Wendt <spamsux@forgetit.org> - 2011-09-17 18:13 -0700
            Re: How to ignore laptop's LCD display? "Fred J. Tydeman" <tydeman.consulting@sbcglobal.net> - 2011-09-18 17:10 +0000
  Re: How to ignore laptop's LCD display? Rich Wonneberger <Turtil@frontiernet.net> - 2011-09-17 20:02 -0400
    Re: How to ignore laptop's LCD display? "Fred J. Tydeman" <tydeman.consulting@sbcglobal.net> - 2011-09-18 16:54 +0000

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