Dell D800 + Dock questions/issues
Keven Ring
keven at mitre.org
Fri Jan 9 17:56:20 UTC 2004
I have a new Dell D800 laptop with a full dockstation that I am trying
to install fedora-core-1 onto. I have run into several issues that
hopefully someone can suggest a method of resolving. Before I get into
the issues, the laptop has an nVidia card, but the dockstation has an
ATI video card builtin. This is, I believe, the root cause of many of
the issues.
1) The fedora <graphical> installer does not work in the dock - the
graphics become unreadable. It almost makes me feel like I am back in
the '80s with old CGA graphics... Except that you can't read what's on
the screen....
2) Installing/running fedora undocked works [I haven't played with all
of the available video modes, but definately 1400x1050 and 1600x1200]
3) XWindows fails to come up when docked
4) redhat-config-xfree86 fails [it detects the nVidia card, not the ATI
card]
I have tried setting the video driver section of the XF86Config to use
the radeon driver, and ATI Radeon (generic) as the graphics card to no
avail. The output from X suggests that it cannot locate a suitable
device for that driver.
I also installed the radeon and agpgart kernel modules, again, to no avail.
What I am wondering is
A) Is there a way to get X to detect the video card on the dock
B) Is there a way to know if I am docked so that the XF86Config file can
be modified appropriately, based on docked/undocked status. A
[potential] viable workaround would be to have two grub entries, one for
docked, one for undocked, passing appropriate entries accordingly.
Obviously, an automated method would be preferable.
Finding a resolution to A) would be great, since it would allow me to
use a D800 in the dockstation. Finding a resolution to B) is not
predicated on having a resolution to A), because I have need for knowing
the docked/undocked status of other [similar] systems as well.
I can post the output of any recommended scans [both docked and
undocked], if required.
Any help/insight would be greatly appreciated.
TIA
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