From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 7 08:55:52 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17F3416A41A for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 08:55:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tobez@tobez.org) Received: from heechee.tobez.org (heechee.tobez.org [194.255.56.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C203C13C4A5 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 08:55:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tobez@tobez.org) Received: by heechee.tobez.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DCDB012542E; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:55:38 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:55:38 +0100 From: Anton Berezin To: Doug Barton Message-ID: <20071107085538.GA70315@heechee.tobez.org> Mail-Followup-To: Anton Berezin , Doug Barton , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Powered-By: FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X Can't "see" my docked monitor - xorg, nvidia, or kde? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:55:52 -0000 On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:19:18PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > > I just did the mondo upgrade of the ports on my up to date 8-current > laptop. Whereas before the upgrade the default video output would always be > the monitor attached to the dock if my laptop was in the dock (which was > what I wanted), now X refuses to see the dock at all, and it will only come > up on the laptop screen. > > The console works just fine on the dock's monitor, and I double-checked the > bios to make sure that the dock is set as primary video out. I also > commented out all mentions of the laptop's screen from xorg.conf, but it > steadfastly insists on coming up only on the laptop. > > All my ports are up to date, including kde 3.5.8, and nvidia-driver > 100.14.19. I also tried with and without the -ignoreABI option, no change. > I should also point out that I'm using kdm, but I was using it before the > upgrade too. Turning kdm off and using startx has no effect (still comes up > only on the laptop screen). > Any suggestions? The content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log might be useful, but also try and play with xrandr. Xrandr --verbose should tell you what outputs i actually sees, and then you can disable/enable individual outputs and see what happens. \Anton. -- We're going for 'working' here. 'clean' is for people with skills... -- Flemming Jacobsen