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PostPosted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 2:56 am    Post subject: Dell Latitude CRT/LCD switch Reply with quote

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I have a dell latitude E6400 with an nvidia Quadro video card. I am running the nvidia proprietary drivers. When I press the Fn+F8 keys the laptop is supposed to switch between the LCD and the external monitor but it is not working. Any ideas as to what may be causing this issue or how to fix it?

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James
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 5:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought that I would update this post with the fix that I found. There is a utility called disper which will handle the switch between displays. It is working great for me.

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 8:56 am    Post subject: Re: Dell Latitude CRT/LCD switch Reply with quote

jcolby wrote:
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Any ideas as to what may be causing this issue or how to fix it?




Well I'm doing an:

Code:

xrandr --output VGA --auto



Or if you have an other output as "VGA" look to

Code:

xrandr -q



So you see what is connected


And then you "bind" this on your prefered button...
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