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Bug 629047 - Laptop Display Switch Key Does Not Work
Summary: Laptop Display Switch Key Does Not Work
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
Version: 6.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Ben Skeggs
QA Contact: desktop-bugs@redhat.com
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 595763
Blocks: 557931 647899
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-08-31 19:12 UTC by Ray Strode [halfline]
Modified: 2018-11-14 18:59 UTC (History)
18 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of: 595763
Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-02-02 20:13:06 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2010-08-31 19:54:34 UTC 
The other bug report added this:

 Chris Tatman      2010-08-31 15:31:12 EDT

In reply to comment#57...Dell had this to say:

I tested with __only__ VGA port and it didn't work.

I have tested the below scenario:

1) Booting up the system while a monitor is connected through the VGA port

and

2) Trying to switch the display after cold and hot plugging the monitor
connected through the VGA port.

In neither situations above do I see any display at all on external monitor.

 Thanks..
    --rez
Comment 3 Chris Tatman 2010-08-31 20:54:49 UTC 
Hi Ben,

Can you verify if the VGA port is still working on your model?  Dell tested with snap7 and it worked fine at that time, but when they tested with snap10 it was no longer working.  And it is still broken in snap 12.

From IT:
2) On M4500 with nouveau driver, display switching doesn't work. However, I believe this is an issue with the Gfx driver. "xrandr -q" on this system doesn't even detect the external monitor. Just to remind everyone, this system has eDP which needed some extra work in nouveau previously.

--Chris
Comment 5 Ben Skeggs 2010-11-02 03:12:28 UTC 
This should all work now, I fixed the remaining issues I seen when the effected M4500 model was shipped to me.
Comment 6 Ben Skeggs 2010-11-29 22:40:16 UTC 
Is there any update from Dell on this issue?
Comment 8 Rezwanul Kabir 2011-02-02 20:02:09 UTC 
This can be closed based on Ben's comment. The only system that we had that was showing this issue was sent to Ben and he verfied the fix on that system. So, I am okay with closing the issue.
Thanks..
    --rez
Comment 9 Vladimir Benes 2011-02-02 20:13:06 UTC 
>  So, I am okay with closing the issue.

closing then, reopen if this issue occurs again
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