Brazenly OT: ThinkPad760XL local/v/remote screen

[John Lawson]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Paul Braun wrote:

>> OK, here's a an OT, I can't wait...
>>
>> I have a seven year old  IBM 760XL Laptop somebody
>> gave me for free with all the trimmings (with 2 different docking



>>
> There's a key, one of the function keys, I believe, that has a little
> icon of a monitor above it.  If you hold down the "fn" key in the lower
> left of the keyboard and repeatedly press the other key, you will
> toggle between LCD only, LCD and external, and external only.


  My newer (dearly departed - snifsnif) Thinkpad A21M was used at home with 
a large monitor and at work standalone. With the FN-monitor set to default 
to the external, nonetheless if it detected no plug in the DB15, the LCD 
came on w/out needing to be manually switched.

   Now, on the Dell Latitude, the same occurs, save that the LCD is active 
for a short time during the boot process.

  This is all under Win2KPro.



Cheers

John

PS: www.acsparts.com has Stuff for older IBM laptops, FYI.