From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 1 22:11:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7A0D16A407 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 22:11:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx22.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44A3443D49 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 22:11:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 18617 invoked by uid 399); 1 Nov 2006 22:11:53 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.7?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Nov 2006 22:11:53 -0000 Message-ID: <45491BA7.7070003@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:11:51 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Dell 620 w/docking station won't do X on the external monitor X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:11:56 -0000 I have a shiny new Dell Latitude 620 with a docking station. In windows I can do two heads, with the external monitor connected to the docking station and the laptop screen as the second head. Works fine. In FreeBSD, I can do X on the laptop screen standalone, or in the dock. I can do terminal mode on the external screen if the laptop is closed, or I can do terminal mode on the laptop screen if it's open. (So far so good.) What I can't do is X on the external screen. I used this same screen with my old desktop, so I know it works in X. Using either the same data from my old xorg.conf, or the data from 'X -configure' (almost identical) what happens is that the screen goes black, then goes into power save mode. If I Ctrl-Alt-Backspace X dies, but when the terminal comes back the screen has a whitish tinge to it, and I can barely make out the prompts. Rebooting lets me see the terminal again, but then I'm back to square one. FWIW, I have a nice new nvidia card in this laptop, and I'm using the nv driver in X because it's a core 2 duo, and I want to try to stick with amd64. If the only way I can get this to work is to switch to i386 and the nvidia drivers, I'll do that, but I'd rather not. (My ultimate goal is to get X working dual-head with Xinerama, or maybe TwinView the same way it works in windows, but I'll settle for X on the external monitor for now.) TIA, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection