[gull] Beamer
Pierre Maitre
maitre at cdg.ch
Sat Feb 7 22:36:00 CET 2004
Erik Rossen wrote:
> Yes. If you have a laptop with a chipset Intel i810 (or i8xx, verify
> with "lspci"), there is a utility available that will allow you to turn
> on the external VGA port, the on-board screen, or both at the same time.
My chipset is a i855 GM
> The package name in Debian unstable (easy to backport to stable) is
> "i810switch". The project home page is at
> http://vorlon.cwru.edu/~ames/i810switch/, but it does not seem to be
> working tonight.
It does and I installed this utility. It says it is still "experimental"
for the i855 and indeed it is (the crt flickers), but at least I could
switch on the external monitor together with the LCD. Last revision of
the program is from sept 2003. Hopefully an improved version will come
out soon...!
Merci Erik
Pierre
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