Hi.

I was playing with "debug" , just writing asm code and asking to chatgpt to
try enabling the external VGA by hand.... but I only got a freezing
computer.

Maybe this is a huge challenge to solve.

*Gabriel González González*


El mié, 9 oct 2024 a las 21:05, Eric Auer via Freedos-user (<
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>) escribió:

>
> Hi!
>
> > Thank you for your answer Liam . I tried that , but it seems to work only
> > if it is running with an OS ( VGA Drivers Loaded)
> > On Windows or Linux loaded that works.
> > There is no way to clone the screen without that . So , I will forget it.
>
> ...
>
> >> hp mini 110 switch display keystroke
>
> ...
>
> >> Press fn+f2 to switch the screen image among display devices connected
> >> to the system. For example, if a monitor is connected to the computer,
> >> pressing fn+f2 alternates the screen image from computer display to
> >> monitor display to simultaneous display on both the computer and the
> >> monitor.
>
> It is possible that instead of letting the BIOS do that job,
> the hotkey is actually linked to some low-level steps which
> are defined in the ACPI data. So in theory, you can use some
> tool of your choice to disassemble that and then follow your
> intuition to find the right search terms to find that machine
> readable explanation of how screens are switched.
>
> Then, you can translate those steps to a programming language
> of your choice to create a tool to switch screens.
>
> Of course the more universal solution would be to understand
> the whole ACPI stuff using some ACPI engine running as a TSR
> in DOS, but that would be a really bloated tool then.
>
> No idea whether anybody wants to investigate this further,
> but maybe "how about reading your ACPI data?" inspires some
> of the curious people on the list here :-)
>
> Eric
>
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