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Nvidia driver and docked laptop.
user name
2007-06-08 09:38:19
In the past, the Nvidia driver would, when my laptop was
docked,
display to the external monitor at the appropriate
resolution when I
started X.  It doesn't do this anymore.  I'm not sure
exactly when it
stopped, but it's been close to two years ago now.  Is there
some
magic option that the nvidia-driver port once set that it
doesn't
anymore?

This has been an annoyance for a long time, but now I
actually need
this to work.  I have an application that I need to run
remotely from
a Linux box, and it makes Nvidia specific OpenGL/X11 calls. 
Yes, I
know this is stupid, but it's software commissioned by the
AFRL and I
have to use it for the task in question.  It'll only display
properly
to Linux/FreeBSD running X on an accelerated Nvidia based
graphics
adapter.

I'm currently running:

FreeBSD ghast 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Fri Jun  1
12:20:26
EDT 2007     rootghast:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ghast  i386

on a Dell Latitude D820 (and before that, on a D800) with
Xorg 7.2 and
the NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-9746.tar.gz port installed:

nvidia0: <GeForce Go 7400> mem
0xed000000-0xedffffff,0xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xee000000-0xeef
fffff irq
16 at device 0.0 on pci1

The native display is a 1920x1200 15.4" LCD, and the
dock has a Dell
2001FP (1600x1200) plugged in to the DVI port.

Jamie Bowden
-- 
"It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to
take hold"
Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur"
Iain Bowen <alaricalaric.org.uk>
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