Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 15:47:45 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Libretto 50 - US Version and PAO Message-ID: <199711050517.PAA00364@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Nov 1997 21:43:47 PDT." <199711050443.VAA12602@harmony.village.org>
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> In message <199711050303.NAA00657@word.smith.net.au> Mike Smith writes: > : At this point in time, it certainly seems to be the best chipset to > : look for in a portable from the free-software point of view. > > How do you get it to use the monitor and/or switch back and forth? Keyboard hotkeys. At least on the Toshiba and Sharp systems I have access to these hit the SMI interrupt, which is handled by the BIOS. What's important to remember is that the SMI BIOS code reprograms the chip when you swap from one mode (LCD, both, external) to the next, so you want to have two modes in your XF86Config file, procedure then (for me) goes: - Start X on LCD - hotkey to external-only mode - alt-ctrl-+ to swap to sync-on-green mode tuned for external monitor then coming back - hotkey to LCD - alt-ctrl-+ to swap back to mode tuned for LCD It's possible to get things pretty confused, but generally if you screw up you can recover by restarting X (alt-ctrl-bksp). Swapping to a text-mode console obviously doesn't work for a sync-on-green monitor 8). Given that I've been doing this on a Toshiba 220CDS, I'd say your chances of having it work on the Libretto are pretty good. mike
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