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xrandr and Fn-F7 on thinkpads

Fri, 2008-02-15 19:15 — wahlau    

trying to switch between display modes under linux had never been easy. At least with xrandr 1.2 things are much better than before - i can finally change display mode without restarting Xorg. But the "standard" FN-F7 was never a working trigger i can use. Being lazy, i never go looking for solution... until today.

to my surprise, it is in a standardized installation a dummy key combination - in order words, Ubuntu detects it but will do nothing. A user must get his hand dirty in making it work, as mentioned in the Thinkwiki site. It is just a few minutes before i got the key combination doing something to my display. I do not know what is the next plan, but i would think including a working script might do all users good right? with xrandr 1.2 around, it is time to enable the screens change using FN-F7.

now can anyone tell me how to ask people to include this in the next distribution?

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Tue, 2011-06-14 02:29 — Fred Myer (not verified)

display drivers

Display drivers have been a challenge. I know that with recent distributions, they have started including them in some sort of Cloud Hosting solution. This way, when the user goes to install them, they just have to click a few buttons. I hope that other distributions will begin to implement some sort of solution like this.

Thu, 2010-10-21 23:44 — Ansgar (not verified)

re: Fn-F7 on thinkpads + xrandr

Well, on my T710 with an nvidia card, this does not work It seems that the nvidia driver does not respect xrandr. Even with the latest (in Oct. 2010) nvidia binary driver and a (not that new) 2.6.34 kernel Fn+F7 does not work on this notebook.
However, disper seems to work well for me.

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