[TriLUG] Dell Laptop Inpiron E1505 - external display crt/lcd

[John Mitchell]

Ah.......
What kind of Video card?
Windows or Linux or Both?

In Windows do you have the latest driver? Latest Dell drivers?
If Nvidia card, latest Nvidia driver?

Try booting Live Linux CD (Fedora/Ubuntu) and check operation.

john mitchell

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Michael Rulison
<13miketele at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I have the above machine, since bought new, about 2007        .
> If I use Function + crt/lcd key (both market in blue), the Laptop screen
> goes black and my TV or a projector displays my screen image. If I do
> Function + crt/lcd key again, the process reverses and my Laptop screen
> is on.
>
> But I have read here and there that there is (at least for some models)
> a trinary switch that goes
>    from lap-on/external-off
>    to lap-off/external-on
>    to lap-on/external-on
> ...repeat the above .....
>
> What I have seems to be only the binary switch of the first two rows above.
> Do I conclude that Dell Inspiron E1505 is only binary or that it is
> misbehaving?
> (BTW, it will not suspend/hibernate and recover properly either, though
> it has switches for those functions.
> Thanks for any light.....
>
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