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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 graphics stacs does not support NVIDIA Optimus hardware configurations. On laptops with both Intel and NVIDIA GPUs, some or all external video ports may not function correctly when using the Intel GPU. If external video ports are needed, configure the BIOS to use the NVIDIA GPU instead of the Intel GPU if possible.
NOTE: This only affects the W530 when the BIOS is set to use the integrated Intel graphics. All outputs work when the discrete nV device is enabled instead. NOTE #2: This bug may be similar to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=876295 Filed from caserun https://tcms.engineering.redhat.com/run/50331/#caserun_1764960 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL6.4-20121026.n.0 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Connect as many displays as you can to the available ports on your display adapter. 2. Ensure the 'nomodeset' kernel parameters are not set in your bootloader configuration. 3. Ensure the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not exist, or is a valid file that uses the valid driver. 1. Verify that the graphical environment starts correctly and is spanned across all connected displays 2. Open a console and run the command xrandr. Take a copy of the results. 3. Disconnect and then re-connect one or more displays; do this several times. If you are using a docking station for a laptop, try removing the laptop from and restoring the laptop to it several times. 4. Run your gnome-display-properties. Verify that it correctly shows each of the connected displays (monitors). Test re-arranging, enabling, disabling and configuring displays. Actual results: Multihead appears not to work on W530 when using intel graphics, neither the VGA nor the DisplayPort connections do anything. I'm not sure if this is normal, because I know on another W5## laptop I was playing with (outside of work) I found out that at least in the Win7 environment only the nV device can drive the external ports. So maybe this is not a bug. BUT, xrandr mentions a "VGA1 disconnected" along with LVDS, so now I don't know what is right. Expected results: Both X and the graphical environment should cope smoothly with displays being disconnected and reconnected while the system is running: the displays should be correctly added or removed by X, and the graphical environment should correctly adjust itself to the added or removed display Configuration tools should allow you to arrange the displays in any configuration, enable and disable displays, and change each display's settings; these changes should work and be reflected in what each display actually shows
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This is somewhere between a hardware and a software issue. At any rate it's known and not likely to be fixed any time soon, as switching between the two GPUs on the fly isn't really functional even upstream. Adding doc text (although I have no idea what 'Result' is meant to be) and closing.