[ltp] PCI video card in dock II is not detected

[Alex Deucher]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Lara Michaels
<laramichaels1978@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I got myself a Thinkpad Dock II (2877, http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thin=
kPad_Dock_II) happily thinking I could then use a dual-head video card (I p=
icked one listed on Thinkwiki, the PNY Quadro NVS 280).
>
> The trouble that, when my X31 is docked, the PCI video card does not show=
 up in lspci's output at all. If I insert a Cardbus card into the dock, how=
ever, it shows up correctly -- so I know the dock is "alive". (Same goes fo=
r the PCI video card itself -- it works on an old desktop system I have her=
e.)
>
> I have tried a number of kernel boot options: acpi=3Doff, pci=3Dassign-bu=
sses, pci=3Dnoacpi, pci=3Drouteirq and pci=3Dnobios. Still, lspci never sho=
ws the PCI card. Strangely, it does show the PCI "bridge" on the dock itsel=
f.
>
> Output of lspci -vvv: http://pastebin.com/ehDZ0Twk
> Output of dmesg: http://pastebin.com/HFhhFnYX
>
> Has anyone succeeded in using a PCI video card on Linux using the Dock II=
? What else should I try?
>
> Thank you for any guidance,

Perhaps the PCI dock pins are not connected on the X31.

Alex