nv and external monitor (hotplug?)

[Adam Jackson]

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 11:18 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> Adam Jackson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 08:46 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> >> I recall one goal of F9 was that hotplug was supposed to work for
> >> detecting new displays?
> >> 
> >> I tried this with the last F9 live, with nvidia (nv driver).  Plugged in
> >> TV to svga, but I see no evidence it was detected or could be used.
> > 
> > For nvidia cards, only G80 and later GPUs have working RANDR 1.2.  This
> > includes the GeForce 8000 and 9000 series.  What model do you have?
>
> NVIDIA GPU GeForce 8600M GS (G86) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)

That should be working then.  It won't light up magically just from
plugging it in, but xrandr and the monitor resolution applet should be
able to configure it.

- ajax