On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:39:09 -0500 Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
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> This option controls whether the LCD BIOS is used on laptops. This
> option defaults to auto, which means
> that the BIOS will be used when the laptop is booted on the LCD
> panel, and will not be used when it is
> booted on an external CRT monitor. If you frequently switch between
> LCD and CRT screens, you may
> wish to set this option to on, so that the graphics modes will be
> limited to those that can be properly
> displayed on the LCD panel. Note that many laptop chipset drivers
> have been updated to have more
> intelligent switching code, and will ignore this option.
I ordinarily use the LCD screen but occasionally need to use both when doing a presentation. Last week I
booted the machine to windows (I needed to show a WMV file) and left it on both screens; however, today it had
reverted to LCD only. I had hoped that it would remember....
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