Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2162 mails)

[Jim Henderson <hendersj@xxxxxxxxx>]

I just replaced one of my Thinkpad systems with a Dell D620 (corporate 
change, so I didn't get to pick the hardware).  OpenSUSE 11 runs quite 
nicely on it, but when it comes to docking, I have some issues.

The D620 has a widescreen display on it, capable of running 1440x900.  
Undocked, this works really nicely, and while the different aspect ratio 
is taking some getting used to, I'm finding that I like it quite well.

But when I dock the laptop, I'm connecting to an Optiquest Q9 LCD panel 
capable of 1280x1024 resolution.  I can't seem to come up with the magic 
combination that lets the laptop be docked and have the display adjust 
either automatically or manually so that I can undock and go back to 
1400x900 without a reboot.

I also have a weird issue with the external keyboard - I can't get the 
number pad to work, no matter how I configure the keyboard in sax2.  The 
keyboard ends up being a way of moving the mouse pointer on the screen 
rather than entering numbers or moving the cursor in a text area.

One suggestion I received was to see if scpm/sumf would handle this - 
that seems to require at least an X session restart, and it claims it 
doesn't work well with NetworkManager (though I can't see why it wouldn't 
in my case, as everything's dynamic).

Any pointers?

Thanks,

Jim
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