From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Description of problem: The nv driver now works pretty well on my laptop screen, including handing the 1680x1050 resolution. (However, I do need to add an explicit Modeline.) However, display on an external monitor doesn't work at all. I get some pretty colors, but nothing related to the screen. This is even the case with a low resolution of 1280x1024, which the internals and external monitors support. Using the vesa driver, it works fine, though I only get 1280x1024 resolution. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Plug in an external monitor, more or after starting X. 2. Using the laptop's monitor-switch button works, but what appears on the external monitor is garbage. Additional info: This is on a Compaq Presario R3000 laptop with an Athlon 64 chip.
"nv" driver bug reports and feature requests need to be filed in the X.Org bugzilla, located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component, as fixing issues in this driver require access to the technical specifications of the hardware, and a detailed knowledge of Nvidia's hardware operation which is not made publically available to 3rd parties. The "nv" driver author, an Nvidia employee, is the only person who currently has access to this documentation and the knowledge of the hardware required in order to fix the driver. Once he has seen your bug report in Xorg bugzilla, he can troubleshoot and possibly resolve the issue. Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates.
Setting status to "NEEDINFO", awaiting upstream bug report URL for tracking.
It seems likely my bug matches existing xorg bug 2857, so I added information about my environment to it: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2857
Ok, thanks for the quick response. I've added this to our upstream tracker, and we'll keep an eye on it in X.Org bugzilla now. Thanks again.