I can boot up completely into a UI, and get my desktop to load, only when I'm not on the docking station. When it's on the docking station I get to the graphical login manager, log in, and then it seemingly freezes - no mouse movement, limited hard drive activity, and no further loading progress.
Background:
Ordinarily I keep the laptop shut and use only the 22" monitor connected to the docking station.
Periodically it has trouble with xscreensaver and dual screens, where it decides that contrary to my settings the laptop screen should be on and what's more, it should be positioned right on top of the 2nd monitor. This causes xscreensaver to only display in the 'laptop' area of the 22", and me to go fiddle with monitor settings again. That happened again yesterday. I tried to disable the laptop screen for the millionth time before giving up and dealing with the odd screensaver for the rest of the day.. which brings us up to date.
It's a Dell latitude D630 running Ubuntu 8.04.
I've run the 'Fix xorg' selection from booting up in recovery mode, with no noticeable effect.
The difference between the Xorg logs is this --
With docking station:
Code:
(--) Configured Mouse: PnP-detected protocol: "ExplorerPS/2"
(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
(--) Synaptics Touchpad auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event6
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event6"
(--) Synaptics Touchpad touchpad found
(II) NV(0): Probing for EDID on I2C bus 0...
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C0:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C0:ddc2" removed.
(II) NV(0): ... none found
(--) NV(0): Trying load detection on VGA1 ... nothing.
(II) NV(0): Probing for EDID on I2C bus 1...
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C1:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C1:ddc2" removed.
(II) NV(0): ... none found
(II) NV(0): Probing for EDID on I2C bus 0...
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C0:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C0:ddc2" removed.
(II) NV(0): ... none found
(--) NV(0): Trying load detection on VGA1 ... nothing.
(II) NV(0): Probing for EDID on I2C bus 1...
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C1:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C1:ddc2" removed.
(II) NV(0): ... none found
(II) NV(0): Probing for EDID on I2C bus 0...
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C0:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C0:ddc2" removed.
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C1:ddc2" removed.
(II) NV(0): ... none found
(II) NV(0): Probing for EDID on I2C bus 0...
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C0:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C0:ddc2" removed.
(II) NV(0): ... none found
(--) NV(0): Trying load detection on VGA1 ... nothing.
(II) NV(0): Probing for EDID on I2C bus 1...
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C1:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C1:ddc2" removed.
(II) NV(0): ... none found
(II) NV(0): Probing for EDID on I2C bus 0...
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C0:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C0:ddc2" removed.
(II) NV(0): ... none found
(--) NV(0): Trying load detection on VGA1 ... nothing.
(II) NV(0): Probing for EDID on I2C bus 1...
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C1:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C1:ddc2" removed.
(II) NV(0): ... none found
(II) NV(0): Probing for EDID on I2C bus 0...
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C0:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C0:ddc2" removed.
(II) NV(0): ... none found
(--) NV(0): Trying load detection on VGA1 ... nothing.
(II) NV(0): Probing for EDID on I2C bus 1...
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C1:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C1:ddc2" removed.
(II) NV(0): ... none found
[end of file]
(Presumably it cuts off where I manually powered it off.)
Without docking station:
Code:
(--) Configured Mouse: PnP-detected protocol: "ExplorerPS/2"
(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
(--) Synaptics Touchpad auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event7
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event7"
(--) Synaptics Touchpad touchpad found
(II) NV(0): Probing for EDID on I2C bus 0...
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C0:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(II) NV(0): I2C device "I2C0:ddc2" removed.
(II) NV(0): ... none found
(--) NV(0): Trying load detection on VGA1 ... nothing.
(II) NV(0): Probing for EDID on I2C bus 1...
(--) NV(0): DDC detected a DFP:
(II) NV(0): Manufacturer: DEL Model: e009 Serial#: 809848140
(II) NV(0): Year: 2004 Week: 43
(II) NV(0): EDID Version: 1.3
(II) NV(0): Digital Display Input
(II) NV(0): Max H-Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 43 vert.: 27
(II) NV(0): Gamma: 2.20
(II) NV(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend Off; RGB/Color Display
(II) NV(0): First detailed timing is preferred mode
(II) NV(0): redX: 0.637 redY: 0.340 greenX: 0.297 greenY: 0.610
(II) NV(0): blueX: 0.146 blueY: 0.071 whiteX: 0.313 whiteY: 0.329
(II) NV(0): Supported VESA Video Modes:
(II) NV(0): 720x400@70Hz
(II) NV(0): 640x480@60Hz
(II) NV(0): 640x480@75Hz
(II) NV(0): 800x600@60Hz
(II) NV(0): 800x600@75Hz
(II) NV(0): 1024x768@60Hz
(II) NV(0): 1024x768@75Hz
(II) NV(0): 1280x1024@75Hz
etc etc.
I have no idea what to do to kick it out of that infinite loop! Does anyone have any ideas?
Many thanks!
