[CLUE-Tech] RedHat 9 and Dell Docking station

[Michael Robbert]

Don,
I'm writing this Email from a Latitude C610 that is in a docking station 
and running Redhat 9 so rest assured that there isn't a conflict with 
the OS and the hardware of the docking station.
I guess we know that the hardware in the docking station is working 
since you have a display before X comes up, right? So, you should be 
able to do Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a login prompt and debug this.
Can you send the relevant lines from cat /proc/pci? You should see a 
section for your video card in there, look for a line that begins with 
Bus 1, that is usually the AGP bus. Then look through your 
/var/log/XFree86.0.log for any errors (EE) or warnings (WW). You should 
also send relevant lines from your /etc/X11/XF86Config file.

If X works fine on the built-in LCD screen then the problem is most 
likely going to be in the monitor settings. Is this the same monitor 
that you used with RH8? Did you have to do anything special to make it 
work at first?

Don Collier wrote:
> Hello all.  Does anyone know why RedHat 9 does not play nice with a Dell
> Latitude docking station?  RedHat 8 worked just fine, but with 9 I get a
> blanke screen when starting X.  The docking station works while using the
> command line but starting X kill the display.
> 
> I thought that I screwed up the installation at first so I formatted and
> reinstalled with the same problem.  It works great while undocked but that
> kinda sucks when I want to use my nice big monitor at the office.
> 
> Any help at all will be greatly appriciated.
> 
> Thanks.

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Michael "Murph" Robbert
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