Subject: Re: vald on a Toshiba P3440 (success..)
To: Martin S. Weber <Ephaeton@gmx.net>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 01/25/2008 15:41:23
Martin S. Weber wrote:
> Hey everybody,
>
> just coming here to report a little success. Due to its manpage, vald
> only supports the Toshiba Libretto:
> "The vald driver has only been tested on the Libretto L3."
>
> Well, you can add "and on the Portege 3440."
Done.
> All of the four keys work; F8 toggles the fan, F6/F7 the LCD brightness
> and F5 switches LCD/CRT/both. In the manpage of the vald it says:
>
> "BUGS vald has a problem with X11 when switching between
> LCD and External Video output."
>
> At least for the P3440 this is not true. Switching between LCD/CRT/both
> will just work fine (tm) on this machine, even with X running.
I have changed the wording for BUGS in the man page to the following:
"vald may have problems with X11 when switching between LCD and External
Video output."
Cheers,
Jared