On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
