nv and external monitor (hotplug?)
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Mon Apr 14 17:13:16 UTC 2008
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Adam Jackson wrote:
> 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.
In my experience the nVIDIA chipsets do not want to see any external
monitors (s-video, tv, secondary VGA, etc.) unless they are plugged in
when the machine was started. I know it is true of the 440go chipset. I
will be testing the 8600m chipset this Wednesday at the Portland
Linux/Unix group Advanced Topics meeting. (My new laptop arrived this
morning less than 2 hours after I left for work.)
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