Re: Upgrade Kernel, Lose External Display

2010-06-15 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
Clean slate, sort of. I've removed any xorg.conf and am not blacklisting any more. System docked will not give me a display on the external screen, whether booted from old kernel or new one. System undocked works perfectly. I'm attaching a new dmesg output with the system docked with the

Re: Upgrade Kernel, Lose External Display

2010-06-14 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/12/2010 03:20 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-12 21:06 +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: I have both xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and xser-xorg-video-fbdev installed (just confirmed it in aptitude), but it doesn't appear that they are being used. I see. The latest xserver-xorg-core in

Re: Upgrade Kernel, Lose External Display

2010-06-13 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/12/2010 03:20 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: You may as well blacklist nouveau then, since it is completely useless without KMS (the nouveau X driver requires KMS). Note, however, that without an xorg.conf the most recent xserver-xorg-core will still load the module. I decided to take baby

Re: Upgrade Kernel, Lose External Display

2010-06-13 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/11/2010 04:30 PM, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: I've ran into this too, and got this solved by blacklisting the nouveau module in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf (adding a line containing just blacklist nouveau), and adding modeset=0 to my kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst (I am still on

Re: Upgrade Kernel, Lose External Display

2010-06-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-12 00:15 +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 06/11/2010 03:08 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-11 19:06 +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: I undock from the port replicator and use the notebook's built-in 1920x1200 display, and the boot with the new kernel brings me to normal gdm

Re: Upgrade Kernel, Lose External Display

2010-06-12 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/12/2010 04:03 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: This is to be expected, because it detects and uses the display's native resolution. This is usually what you want, but you can override it with the video=800x600 boot parameter (or whatever other resolution you like). Looks like I have a bit of

Re: Upgrade Kernel, Lose External Display

2010-06-12 Thread Steven
On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 22:30 +0200, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:06:04 -0400 Gilbert Sullivan whirly...@comcast.net wrote: Running Squeeze with Xfce desktop environment (only) on Dell Latitude D810. Nvidia video card running the VESA driver (though there's a bunch of

Re: Upgrade Kernel, Lose External Display

2010-06-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-12 15:38 +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 06/12/2010 04:03 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: Thanks. I don't see anything unusual in it, in particular nouveau detects the 1680x1050 resolution of the external display: [7.308183] [drm] nouveau :01:00.0: allocated 1680x1050 fb:

Re: Upgrade Kernel, Lose External Display

2010-06-12 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/12/2010 01:42 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-12 15:38 +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 06/12/2010 04:03 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: Thanks. I don't see anything unusual in it, in particular nouveau detects the 1680x1050 resolution of the external display: [7.308183] [drm]

Re: Upgrade Kernel, Lose External Display

2010-06-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-12 21:06 +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: I have both xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and xser-xorg-video-fbdev installed (just confirmed it in aptitude), but it doesn't appear that they are being used. I see. The latest xserver-xorg-core in sid uses nouveau by default, but that version

Re: Upgrade Kernel, Lose External Display

2010-06-12 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/12/2010 03:20 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-12 21:06 +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: I have both xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and xser-xorg-video-fbdev installed (just confirmed it in aptitude), but it doesn't appear that they are being used. I see. The latest xserver-xorg-core in

Upgrade Kernel, Lose External Display

2010-06-11 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
Running Squeeze with Xfce desktop environment (only) on Dell Latitude D810. Nvidia video card running the VESA driver (though there's a bunch of verbiage in dmesg about nouveau). System is normally connected to a port replicator and DVI display (1680x1050). Upgraded from 2.6.32-3 to 2.6.32-6

Re: Upgrade Kernel, Lose External Display

2010-06-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-11 19:06 +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: Running Squeeze with Xfce desktop environment (only) on Dell Latitude D810. Nvidia video card running the VESA driver (though there's a bunch of verbiage in dmesg about nouveau). System is normally connected to a port replicator and DVI

Re: Upgrade Kernel, Lose External Display

2010-06-11 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:06:04 -0400 Gilbert Sullivan whirly...@comcast.net wrote: Running Squeeze with Xfce desktop environment (only) on Dell Latitude D810. Nvidia video card running the VESA driver (though there's a bunch of verbiage in dmesg about nouveau). System is normally connected to

Re: Upgrade Kernel, Lose External Display

2010-06-11 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/11/2010 03:08 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-11 19:06 +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: Running Squeeze with Xfce desktop environment (only) on Dell Latitude D810. Nvidia video card running the VESA driver (though there's a bunch of verbiage in dmesg about nouveau). System is normally

Re: Upgrade Kernel, Lose External Display

2010-06-11 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/11/2010 04:30 PM, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:06:04 -0400 Gilbert Sullivanwhirly...@comcast.net wrote: Running Squeeze with Xfce desktop environment (only) on Dell Latitude D810. Nvidia video card running the VESA driver (though there's a bunch of verbiage in dmesg