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[Pierre Maitre]

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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