Asus Laptop Extras

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Switching display using the "display" mode is not supported with a lot of
drivers.
It seems to works in console mode, and with vesa drivers.
With nvidia or ati, you can use the driver directly.

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Hi.
You are correct. I eventually learned how to act over the ACPI events. I
tought that, as it worked before loading linux, it would be somewhat
automatic. I also dicovered that I needed the latest nvidia driver. After
that, I had it working nicely.
I should have updated it here, sorry.

Hotkeys being recognized doesn't mean anything. You need something to act
upon those events.
Even then, if writing values to /sys/devices/platform/asus-laptop/display
doesn't work, there is not much you can do.
The problem is, probably, that G1 has nvidia card and switching the
displays should be done with nvidia specific stuff...
(Just a guess, but I would expect that asus-laptop/display file works only
with integrated graphic chipset).
You can still use nvidia-settings utility to switch those display
though...