Does your laptop have a key sequence that will switch the output from LCD to CRT(external monitor) and back? Mine does. Fn-F8. It's directly tied to the hardware and doesn't need any support in X or Linux. Of course it's an x86 laptop, but it's the same video controller, so maybe your Pismo has something similar? I have to hit it a couple-o' three times to get it to switch, and it does a three way deal: LCD, external, and both simultaneously.
a "Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > Hey All, > > So after 7 months of flailing I finally got my Pismo to run it's > external monitor port, yeah!!! > > 3 days before I had a talk to give about our OpenSource project, I > realized I was going to be using OpenOffice under linux, and I > couldn't actually drive a projector... So after I got done panicing I > hit google. I find a link on the YDL lists about the 'mirror' program > that appears to have been originally written by Paul Mackeras. > > It gives me the functionality I need, but unfortunately it doesn't > seem to work with 2.4 kernels, only 2.2. The program is doing some > pretty low-level memory mojo which I am clueless about. > > Could someone slightly wiser point out what would change between 2.2 > and 2.4 that would cause this to break? Is it the base memory offset > for the framebuffer? > > Cheers! > jas. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Name: mirror2.c > mirror2.c Type: text/x-csrc > Encoding: quoted-printable > > --------------------------------------------------------------------
