NVidia: internal/external display switching

Dmitry Kasatkin dmitry.kasatkin at nokia.com
Mon Nov 24 11:51:33 UTC 2008


Hi,

The problem seems that I use 2 monitors - DVI (DFP-1) and VGA (CRT-0) at
the same time in Twin Mode.
If I add also to use internal LCD then I see in xorg.log that it says
only 2 simultaneously supported.
And it somehow disables internal DFP-0.
And then when resume without dock then X will not use DFP-0 anymore.
If I kill X with Ctrl-Alt-backspace then it will start using DFP-0 since
DFP-1 and CRT-0 is not available.

But if I do not use vga then I can configure twin view "clone" mode and
X will use DFP-0 and DFP-1. Then in this case after resume it will use
DFP-o or 1.


- Thanks

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On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Dmitry Kasatkin
<dmitry.kasatkin at nokia.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a use case which I want to make working.
>
> I use external LCD display with my Lenovo Thinkpad T61p which has NVidia
> Quadro FX570M chip in a dock in the office.
> But when I go to home I want to suspend the laptop and resume at home
> and of course use internal LCD.
>
> But when I resume laptop I cannot see any picture on internal LCD,
> because X still uses old configuration.
>
> If I restart X server with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace then it will start using
> internal LCD.
>
> Is any way to switch display on the fly without killing X?
>
> How to configure X in order achieve that?
>
> Any hints are welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Dmitry
>

Hi

Just cloning the screen is no solution?

Neil


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