X Can't "see" my docked monitor - xorg or nvidia?

Kelly Hays j.kelly.hays at gmail.com
Sun Nov 25 18:20:09 PST 2007


Doug,
Did you ever get this working? I have a simular problem and the
workaround I found is to use the "nvidia-driver-96xx" port instead of
the regular "nvidia-driver" port. I can not remember the exact model
of the Dell FP display that I have ( it is at work) but it is the same
resolution (1600x1200).

On Nov 11, 2007 4:01 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Thanks for responding, sorry it took so long to get back to you,
> $REAL_LIFE is in my face lately.
>
> >> All my ports are up to date, including kde 3.5.8, and nvidia-driver
> >> 100.14.19. I also tried with and without the -ignoreABI option, no change.
> >> I should also point out that I'm using kdm, but I was using it before the
> >> upgrade too. Turning kdm off and using startx has no effect (still comes up
> >> only on the laptop screen).
> >
> >> Any suggestions?
> >
> > The content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log might be useful,
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/Xorg.0.log
>
> There are a couple of interesting sections:
> (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1
> (II) PCI: Config type is 1
> (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x00000000, mode1Res1 = 0x80000000
> (WW) OS did not count PCI devices, guessing wildly
>
> and
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on Quadro NVS 110M at
> PCI:1:0:0:
> (--) NVIDIA(0):     DELL 2001FP (CRT-0)
> (--) NVIDIA(0):     LPL (DFP-0)
> (--) NVIDIA(0): DELL 2001FP (CRT-0): 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
> (--) NVIDIA(0): LPL (DFP-0): 330.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
> (--) NVIDIA(0): LPL (DFP-0): Internal Dual Link LVDS
>
> That all looks right, but
>
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: DFP-0
>
> That should not be, since the only screen mentioned in xorg.conf
> (http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/xorg.conf) is the 2001FP.
>
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1600x1200"; removing.
>
> This makes sense because the laptop screen doesn't do that resolution,
> it's for the 2001FP.
>
> > but also try and play with xrandr.  Xrandr --verbose should tell you
> > what outputs i actually sees, and then you can disable/enable individual
> > outputs and see what happens.
>
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1440 x 900, maximum 1440 x 900
> default connected 1440x900+0+0 (0x19a) normal (normal) 0mm x 0mm
>          Identifier: 0x199
>          Timestamp:  811385259
>          Subpixel:   unknown
>          Clones:
>          CRTC:       0
>          CRTCs:      0
>    1440x900 (0x19a)   64.8MHz
>          h: width  1440 start    0 end    0 total 1440 skew    0 clock
> 45.0KHz
>          v: height  900 start    0 end    0 total  900           clock
> 50.0Hz
> ...
>
> No mention of the 2001FP at all.
>
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Doug
>
If my info will help I'll be glad to gather any needed details tomorrow at work.

Let me know if you find a solution and I will try it here too.

Thanks,
  Kelly


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