The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite P15, using an Nvidia GeForce FX5100 video card. I looked at
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/hotkey/ and it says that the "fix" is included in 2008.11. I can verify that the "dispswitch" program is running under Gnome as a daemon. However, it doesn't seem to be detecting any displays. And Shift+F5 doesn't do anything. I am hesitant to use /usr/bin/nvidia-settings, because I read somewhere (this list maybe?) that people have gotten messed up by trying it, perhaps due to incompatible versions of the video card and the drivers in 2008.11. Kostas Lin Ma wrote: > Kostas Oikonomou wrote: >> I have been using OpenSolaris 2008.11 for a few months now, and I >> suddenly discovered that the display switching (mode) key Fn+F5 >> doesn't work. It is supposed to allow you to use an external display >> (e.g. a projector) in addition to, or in place of, the laptop's >> screen. The rest of the Fn+Fx keys work fine, like the Fn+F9 >> mousepad/external mouse switch. >> >> I also found that if the laptop boots up with the external display >> connected, it will use that, but still the Fn+F5 combination doesn't >> work, so the laptop's screen is inactive. >> >> Is this a known problem, and is there any workaround? > What is the brand of your laptop? Acer? > For switching video, you may try /usr/bin/nvidia-settings if you has a > nvidia card and load "nvidia" into kernel, or > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/hotkey/ for other cards. > > lin >> >> Kostas >> >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
