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

[Doug Barton]

Andrew Elmore wrote:
> 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.

Argh, thanks. Be nice to at least get it working on the external
monitor, but at least I won't waste any more time on the dual-head stuff.

Doug

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