Dell 620 w/docking station won't do X on the external monitor

[Andrew Elmore]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 02:11:51PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> 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.)

I haven't had much luck setting up dual-head with the nv driver on
amd64.  There's a xorg bug filed about it:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5190

I've heard that ATI graphics are the only option for dual-head support
on amd64, since everything else seems to depend on i386-only proprietary
blobs.

regards,
Andrew