DELL D620 docking station + external monitor

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Thu Dec 14 22:51:59 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 23:06 +0100, Bernd Bartmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running FC6 on a DELL D620 laptop. After installing the
> 915resolution tool I also got X11 running in the native 1440x900
> resolution using the integrated Intel graphics card and the "i810"
> driver. Now when I put the laptop into the docking station I can't get
> any X11 output neither to the external displays attached to the
> docking stations DVI and VGA port nor on the internal laptop display.
> 
> Text mode output to the external displays seems to work, i.e. when the
> laptop lid is closed I get the console output on the display attached
> to the DVI port.

Are you sure the external monitor can handle 1440x900 displays?

> I also tried the new "intel" driver,  but with this one I can't even
> get X11 output to the internal display when the laptop is undocked.
> 
> Everything else seems to work fine. So thanks to all the developers
> for the very good FC6 release!
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Best regards,
> Bernd.
> 
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