I have a Dell E6400 with a docking station/port replicator and am having some issues with openSUSE 11.2 (64) that I recently installed. The two issues I have are as follows:
I have a laptop with a docking station that has a large monitor connected to it. When the laptop is docked, I use the monitor as my primary display, and the laptop screen as a secondary display.
When I undock, the laptop screen becomes my primary display, and all the windows move over to it.
I'm using a Thinkpad T420s on Ubuntu 11.10 / gnome 3, which I usually put in the corresponding docking station.
The problem is that the docked device is unable to discover the second display if connected through the docking station's DVI port. No problem if connected directly, and no problem if I use the VGA port.
I'm going to jump into the world of Linux, and do so by "voting" for Ubuntu and purchasing a Dell Studio XPS 13 with Ubuntu pre-loaded.
I am running Fedora 17 on a M4600 Dell laptop. It works great except for when I dock it. The system does not seem to know when the lid is closed. The login screen still shows up on the laptop screen even though it is docked. The monitor connected to the dock just shows the fireworks wallpaper nothing else.
I'm running 12.10 on a dell e5400 laptop and I used xrandr to get the dual monitors working that I connect through a laptop dock. I used xrandr again to switch back to the laptop display when I undocked. The problem is, after a restart, the laptop seems to want to come back up with the dual monitor configuration and the laptop screen stays blank.
I'm on Unity, trying to configure my collection of monitors. Until this afternoon, I could click on "systems settings", select displays, and click-drag to rearrange the monitors on the screen. This resulted in reasonable behaviour - the mouse could move across boundaries from one to another, and windows could be dragged between them.
This afternoon I acquired a third monitor.
i've found a way around what i want todo; xrandr command in a script file.
however, that doesnt really fix it fully and is a fairly buggy solution
the issue:
laptop obviously has it's own LCD monitor (1280x800). i have a 22" (1680x1050) external monitor connected via the docking station.
Hi there
I have a dell precision m6600. I typically use a docking station w/ dual external monitors. After recent system upgrades (maybe a month), I stopped being able to dock in with the external monitors. The error just says that a problem occurred and I should reach out to the system administrator.
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