[ltp] Dock II, R50p and DVI

[Alex Deucher]

I=B4m working on support for lvds plus internal tmds, but I=B4m out of the
country at the moment.  Feel free to try my latest patch (check the ML
archives), I=B4ll get back to work on it when I=B4m back in the country.

Alex

On 7/6/05, Winsley von Spee <winsley@vonspee.com> wrote:
> Hi
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> I finally got an IBM Dock II and I tried to use the DVI port but I have n=
o Idea how to use it. Beside Problems about resolutions higher than 1280x10=
24 I found nothing about it. Somebody mentioned that it is possible to use =
it but nobody mentioned how. I'm using xorg 6.8.1 with the radeon driver an=
d the only thing I found is the MonitorLayout Option where you can tell him=
 which Monitor to use (LVDS, TMDS, CRT, NONE) but it doesn't affect which o=
ne of the external Connectors(VGA/DVI) is used.
> The settings in ibm-acpi ("/proc/acpi/ibm/video") does not affect anythin=
g but the Readme says that if you use a X driver they might not working.
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> The second thing is that the docking station only powers up if you boot t=
he thinkpad after connecting it to the docking station. If it is on before =
the docking station will not power up even if ibm-acpi says it is connected=
. But I guess this has to do with the Texas Instruments PCI2032 PCI Docking=
 Bridge which is not supported by the linux kernel.
> Except of the usb ports the other ports are useable in this state (guess =
the internal pci/pcmcia slots aren't too) but this might be because they ar=
e directly connected to the notebook.
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> Does anybody have a hint or perhaps an solution to my problems??
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> Regards W.v.Spee
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