I installed Mandrake v8.1 on my HP900 Omnibook not long ago. I did this while it was undocked. I recently put it in the docking station with an external monitor attached and discovered that once it gets to the boot stage where X-Windows is started, the display goes blank.
I recall that the XF86Config file often has an option for extern. So the problem could probably be fixed by setting this option in the XF86Config file. My questions are: * is there some way to feed a parameter to the boot process that would select this appropriately? * is there some easy way to detect docked/undocked status that could be used in a script - in the /etc/rc tree for instance? * is it possible to drive both the external display and the LCD display simultaneously? Would this need to limit the resolution of both to that of the laptop LCD, as it does under windows? (or could the laptop LCD use a screen size that matched the external monitor with only a partial window actually displayed...) As a work-around, I could just boot to the CLI and then start X-windows with the appropriate XF86Config settings, but that seems inelegant. TIA D.J.
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