From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.200.10]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 1953578 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:09:11 -0500 Message-ID: <4B0310F4.1070105@2rosenthals.com> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:09:08 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090827 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.18 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] Screen switch References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 11/17/09 04:01 pm, Julian Thomas thus wrote : > On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:39:09 -0500 Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > >> 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.... > > What is the BIOS setting? -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com Secure, stable, operating system www.ecomstation.com -------------------------------------------------------------