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Sigma47
November 9th, 2009, 10:36 PM
OK I broke and made a thread, sorry.I have a laptop (Dell 1400) with NVIDIA 8400MS or something...I come into work with my laptop and plug a 19" DFP into the VGA out to get dual monitors whilst at work. When I plug in the display I want to hit Fn+F8 and have it auto extend (twinview) my lappy display to the 19". Then when i am leaving I wanna hit Fn+F8 again (twice actually) and have it return to the lappy display only. When the hotkey is functioning properly it should go from lappy to extended to external to lappy within 3 hits.

OK this works when 9.10 is installed w/o the Nvidia drivers but as soon as I install/enable them the whole process is kaput. When the Nvidia drivers are installed and I hit Fn+F8 I get 2 mirrored screens displaying at the same resolution hitting it again goes to external and hitting it again switches to the laptop with a panning area the same size as the twin view screen. Any tips on getting twin view toggle working with the Fn+F8 keys?

thx