On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 22:55:22 +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 02:09:14PM -0500, Jason Clinton wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 19:31 +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > > > > > > 1) For some cards there is a command available to switch LCD and > > > > external video on and off. Using ACPI and a bit of scripting you can > > > > even assign this to special keys. > > > > > > Does anyone know how to do this with an ATI Rage graphicscard? What > > > packet to install? What command to use? > > > > > > > > On my laptop's ATI M200 graphics card, I use the fglrx-control GUI to do > > this. > > Where do I find that, aptitude doesn't reveal it, and commandline > doesn't give me a hint.
You need to include "non-free" in your /etc/apt/sources.list, e.g. deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib fglrx-control is currently only in Sid. If you use the "radeon" driver then "radeontool" might also be worth a look, but its package description sounds somewhat ominous. (Disclaimer: I have no direct experience with ATI cards, I just did a quick search through the package descriptions.) -- Regards, Florian
