On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 01:52 -0500, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:

How can I configure openSUSE to work with my notebook docking station? It needs to switch resolution and switch which monitor is used whenever it is docked or undocked. Everything else seems to be working fine.

I'm afraid this reply won't be that helpful but here is what I can tell you about your issue. AFAIK, "docking" an HP laptop into a docking station with a monitor attached doesn't do anything different than simply connecting another monitor so your problem isn't docking station specific. What you are really trying to do is external monitor detection which is a problem I've battled on-and-off for years. First, let me tell you flat out that the only chance of it working is during boot-up. The chances of docking and un-docking a live system and having it automatically change the display is probably nil. I used to have a boot up script which would detect the presence of a second monitor and then activate the appropriate xorg.conf file. This worked quite well. Unfortunately that was the good news. The bad news is that it no longer works. There used to be a utility called "ddcprobe" that would query the attached monitors and could be used for this purpose. "ddcprobe" has never been a part of OpenSUSE and I don't believe that this utility is supported in any distro. In any case that is irrelevant because ddcprobe no longer seems to work (at least not with ATI display adapters). My guess is there must be something else that could be used for this purpose but I have never been able to find it. For example, sax2 does display detection but I've never been able to figure out if there is a component of it that could be used just to query the monitors and return a result in a script. Perhaps someone else knows of a command line utility that can tell you what displays are connected? If you can figure that out then scripting a startup script to change the display settings automatically is relatively straight forward. Regards, -- John Lange www.johnlange.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org