Problem with external VGA

[John Pilkington]

On 29/04/13 19:39, Miner, Jonathan W (US SSA) wrote:
>
> ________________________________________
> From: John Pilkington [J.Pilk at tesco.net]
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 08:16
> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: Problem with external VGA
>
> 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?
>
> ------
>
> The Xorg logs from the 3.7.9-104 kernel clearly show that the VGA is detected:
> [    48.288] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Printing probed modes for output VGA-1
> [    48.288] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Output VGA-1 connected
>
> The Xorg logs from the 3.8.3-103 (and newer 3.8.4-102) kernels, show the driver believes the VGA is not connected:
> [    46.357] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Output VGA-1 disconnected
>
> Starting to look like the driver was changed between 3.7  and 3.8 kernels?
>
> - Jon
>
>
I'm afraid this device is outside my comfort zone.  nVidia say their 
310.44 driver supports the Quadro 1000M, but I don't see packages for 
that on the rpmfusion site.  304.88, which is there, is claimed to 
support it too.   Don't know nouveau.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-310.44-driver.html

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-304.88-driver.html

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/testing/17/x86_64/kmod-nvidia-3.8.4-102.fc17.x86_64-304.88-1.fc17.x86_64.rpm

HTH

John P