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Re: How to ignore laptop's LCD display?

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On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:01:55 UTC, "Fred J. Tydeman" 
<tydeman.consulting@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I have an old IBM Thinkpad A31p laptop with ATI 
> Mobility Radeon 7500 graphics chip with 64 meg 
> display ram.  The 1600x1200 LCD display has died.
> I have hooked up an external monitor (1920x1080).
> I have been able to reconfigure Windows XP and
> Fedora Core Linux to ignore the dead LCD and use
> the external monitor at 1920x1080 (which is sharp)
> But, with eCS 1.2R, I cannot figure out how to
> do the equivalent.
> 
> Using: System Setup: Screen
> 
> I have tried 1600x1200 on the 1920x1080 which ends
> up with a fuzzy display.
> 
> I have tried 1920x1080, but 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.

It's not clear what you want to do.  Are you not able to get eCS to
output video on the external monitor?  What do you mean by "ignoring"
the LCD?

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Alex Taylor
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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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