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