I have a 9300 and I use it for my HTPC hooked up to a 27" LCDTV. I use the external monitor with the laptop closed. It took me a few days of tweaking to figure out the only way to get this working for me was to use the 8040 drivers, any other driver would turn off the screen once I closed the monitor.
8040 has other problems, such as odd shading in Psychonauts, but overal works great.
What I want to do is setup the external display to be the only monitor on boot.
I can easily set this up after it has booted, using the Display Properties, or the CRT/LCD button. But it is too complicated for my wife. Is there anyway to get it to DEFAULT using the external monitor, not requiring me to change the settings after starting up? This might require some script running on startup, but I havn't done such a thing before, any insight would be useful.
I have thought about just leaving it on all the time, because when it comes back from standby it is still on the second monitor. But I think it would not be wise for me to keep it running 24/7, it might wear out years sooner than normal.
8040 has other problems, such as odd shading in Psychonauts, but overal works great.
What I want to do is setup the external display to be the only monitor on boot.
I can easily set this up after it has booted, using the Display Properties, or the CRT/LCD button. But it is too complicated for my wife. Is there anyway to get it to DEFAULT using the external monitor, not requiring me to change the settings after starting up? This might require some script running on startup, but I havn't done such a thing before, any insight would be useful.
I have thought about just leaving it on all the time, because when it comes back from standby it is still on the second monitor. But I think it would not be wise for me to keep it running 24/7, it might wear out years sooner than normal.
