Re: Dell 7500 w/Fedora C2: how to switch display to external monitor?

larwe_at_larwe.com
Date: 02/04/05 

Date: 4 Feb 2005 11:44:10 -0800

> >> now is figuring out how to switch the display from the laptop
panel
> >> to the external monitor port.
> > What's the video chipset? If ATI, use atitvout.
>
> ? Not quite, dude. ATi makes 3 "chipset families", usually referred
to

Yes quite, dude :)

If you want to switch *on-the-fly*, the easiest way is to use atitvout
to enable the desired display(s), be that LCD, CRT or TV.

It works very nicely on all the Mobility series chips I've tried.

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