![]() Finally i found what items to edit in xorg. Took me couple of hours of reading, trying. So it's not a distro problem, but problem of nvidia utility incorrectly setting the /etc/X11/nf configuration file. ubuntu, kubuntu, fedora, debian to name a few. ![]() I did some googling and found that quite a bunch of people had same problem in various distributions. I just wanna come to office, throw ntb to dock, turn it on (without opening lid) and enjoy ext keyboard, mouse, monitor. I tried setting twin view than back to separate screens, tried turn on/off xinerama and again back to separate screens. I tried fiddling with the nvidia-settings utility (nice graphical gui utility - working correctly only under root account btw). Confirmed by opening the lid of my laptop and revealed that it reverted back to the laptop display. My laptop would boot up with the External monitor working, untill it came to the part where the desktop manager starts - when the GDM hit start, it turned signal back to internal notebook display. Only problem i experienced was with redirecting my dvi signal to external screen. ![]() ![]() All turned ok after installing proprietary nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_. I'd say pretty straightforward install in text mode (gui mode wasnt running). Recently, i setup linux CentOS 5.1 on my R61 ntb. ![]()
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