Kostas Oikonomou wrote: > 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. While I'm heard that tools based on XRandR doesn't work well on X nvidia module, but I could wrong. Anyway the author of dispswith told me it won't work on X nvidia module (you will see LoadModule: "nvidia" in Xorg.0.log if your X server loads it). That means if you want to make it work, you have to get rid of nvidia driver from kernel and then X server will load 'nv' module automatically (or try explicitly load it in /etc/X11/xorg.org). Otherwise if you are using Nvidia driver and X Nvidia module, you'd better use nvidia-settings.
> > 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. Maybe it is. But seems there is no choice. You could try XRANDR tools like dispswith, gnome-display-properties. But I guess they won't work. lin > > 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 >>
