On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:15:08PM +0530, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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.
So Fn-F7 works in BIOS but not in the OS? Does it work from the CLI (not X)? This would isolate if its an X issue or something else. If it doesn't work from the CLI, then either something in the OS is capturing the Fn-F7 or there's a hardware problem. Just to be on the safe side, I'd get the advanced hardware diagnostics from IBM's web site and run them on the laptop. Doug.
