Re: How to ignore laptop's LCD display?

Steve Wendt wrote:
On 09/17/11 11:45 am, Fred J. Tydeman wrote:

The real screen only shows a subset (perhaps 1280x960) of the image
(which can be panned) to get to any part of the full image.

After boot, have you toggled the output (Fn-F7, I believe) so that only the external monitor is
selected as output? There are three modes: a) LCD only, b) LCD+VGA, c) VGA only

You could also load GACtrl, and try turning off LCD output there. It may not stick between reboots
though, depending on what the BIOS does.

I don't know if this is relevant to the OP, but on my T60 Fn-F7 doesn't work if ACPI.PSD (which I need for SMP) is loaded. For some reason it captures the Fn-xx key strokes. If the developers could be persuaded to let them through Fn-F7 would probably work since it works if I rem out the ACPI related lines.

The work around on the T60 is to boot to another system, use Fn-F7 to get the display system in the desired state and then reboot eCS without powering down. Maybe the OP's laptop will behave the same way.
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