Problem with external VGA

[John Pilkington]

On 29/04/13 12:48, Miner, Jonathan W (US SSA) wrote:
> I've got a Dell Precision M4600 laptop, running Fedora 17.  Sometime
> after kernel 3.7.9-104, the external VGA output no longer works.
>
> If I boot with 3.7.9-104,with my projector attached, it is recognized.
> If I boot with 3.8.4-102, external VGA devices are not recognized.
>
> lspci:
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF108 [Quadro
> 1000M] (rev a1)
>
> (I've tried running the driver from nVidia, but that has screen
> rendering problems, with blocks of random data instead of my normal
> background pic)
>
> - Jon
>
>
/var/log/Xorg.0.log ought to show what's happening.  Or 0 ... to 9.

'the driver from nvidia'?  Which one? but perhaps you want to run nouveau?