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

[Michael Rulison]

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Subject: 	Dell Laptop Inpiron E1505 - external display crt/lcd
Date: 	Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:44:11 -0400
From: 	Michael Rulison <13miketele at bellsouth.net>
To: 	trilug at trilug.org



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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