From: Brendan Halpin (brendan.halpin at domain ul.ie)
Date: Fri 19 Apr 2002 - 12:54:57 IST
Nick Murtagh <murtaghn at domain tcd.ie> writes:
> On Friday 19 April 2002 12:11, Brendan Halpin wrote:
> > I have an Inspiron, and it has a function key for looping between
> > internal-only/external-only/both/(maybe neither). If what you're
> > trying to do is duplicate the internal screen, that should work; if
> > you're trying to set up a second independent X display I should
> > have stayed quiet :-).
>
> maybe neither? What's that for?!
TTTT, I included it only as a logical possibility, but you could conceivably
want a "private" mode, so no one has a clue what your ppt
presentation is going to look like ahead of time.
> I've used a Dell laptop, and as far as I
> know it has the first three modes as you describe. Getting such a laptop
> to work with an external projector is usually a very frustrating
> experience...
My experience with the Inspiron 4000 has been good, except once,
for a paper presentation -- the IT guy came and looked and fiddled,
and sucked his teeth and said "your system doesn't export video
correctly" (I was too polite to tell him what I thought of that).
It turned out that there was a bent pin on the cable. Otherwise
Plug'n'Go.
Brendan
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