I recently upgraded from fedora 13 to Fedora 14 on my Lenvo Thinkpad T61. I primarily use my laptop with a Lenovo docking station and an external VGA monitor. The video card is an nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M. While running Fedora 13 (and earlier versions) I was able to use my external monitor and proprietary nVIDIA drivers with no issues or problems whatsoever. Using the external monitor with Fedora 14 is another story: i) With the nouveau video drivers installed I can use my external monitor, but I must leave my laptop display open while in the docking station and I must press the Fn-F7 key to make sure the external display is selected. If I leave my laptop case closed as I was able to do Fedora 13 and every earlier version, I can watch the system boot and once the system "acorn" completes and the display switches to the GUI Logon dialog, the external monitor goes blank and displays nothing. Is there a setting to change that will allow the external monitor to remain active once the GUI Logon starts and my laptop case is closed while in the dock? ii) I tried installing the proprietary nVIDIA drivers and the situation is a bit worse than when using the nouveau drivers. With nVIDIA I can watch the system boot on the external VGA monitor, but I get a character based progress bar across the bottom of the screen instead of the graphical "acorn." Once the system switches to the GUI logon there is no display whatsoever on the external monitor - it is totally unusable. iii) I personally would like to use the nVIDIA drivers as I have found the nouveau drivers to be somewhat unstable. My system display locks up and freezes at least 3 times a week with a garbled display. I wish that I could recreate the scenario that causes the garbled display but I can't, so I can't submit a bug report. Any help in getting the the external VGA display working correctly would be most appreciated. Charlie -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
