From: Amarendra Godbole (amarendra.godbolegmail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 22 2008 - 05:45:08 CST

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On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <dtuttyporchlight.ca> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 03:41:30PM +0530, Amarendra Godbole wrote:
> > I am unable to move the display to a projector or an external monitor
> > on my Thinkpad X60, which is running OpenBSD 4.2-current. Fn-F7 is the
> > keycombination to be used to switch displays, but it does not work.
> > Now, I am not too sure if this is a function of the OS, or Thinkpad's
> > firmware. Search engines turned up nothing. Can someone suggest a way
> > by which I can make use of an external monitor? Any software package
> > to control this? Thanks.
>
> When you boot the laptop, go into the bios (just to prevent booting).
> Have the external monitor attached. Hit your key combo and you should
> get the bios screen on the external monitor. If this works, then you're
> on the right track. If it doesn't, then you know that its not the OS
> fault.
[...]

Okay, this works - going to BIOS, hitting a Fn-F7, and getting the
display on the extenal monitor. But now I have lost my notebook
display, but this is workable for the timebeing (I am also
investigating the xrandr option suggested by Matthieu). Thanks.

-Amarendra

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