Re: External monitor of Thinkpad W530

2013-02-12 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:26:08PM +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > On 02/12/2013 09:40 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 01:00:13PM +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > >> > >> If you are interested search for: > >> "Re: nvidia optimus tricks (was: F16 - Adding a second video card)" > >> (

Re: External monitor of Thinkpad W530

2013-02-12 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 02/12/2013 09:40 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 01:00:13PM +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> >> If you are interested search for: >> "Re: nvidia optimus tricks (was: F16 - Adding a second video card)" >> (24 July 2012) > > If you have the message id, it would save the OP some tim

Re: External monitor of Thinkpad W530

2013-02-12 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 01:00:13PM +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > If you are interested search for: > "Re: nvidia optimus tricks (was: F16 - Adding a second video card)" > (24 July 2012) If you have the message id, it would save the OP some time searching by just going to http://mig.gmane.org/.

Re: External monitor of Thinkpad W530

2013-02-12 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 12/02/2013 12:00, Roberto Ragusa wrote: On 02/12/2013 11:22 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote: On 12/02/2013 09:42, Roberto Ragusa wrote: I worked out a solution (but it is not easy) where I drive the LCD with Intel and the external VGA with Nvidia. The secondary X server can be run and stopped indip

Re: External monitor of Thinkpad W530

2013-02-12 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 02/12/2013 11:22 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote: > On 12/02/2013 09:42, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> I worked out a solution (but it is not easy) where I drive the LCD with Intel >> and the external VGA with Nvidia. >> The secondary X server can be run and stopped indipendently, it is actually >> a good se

Re: External monitor of Thinkpad W530

2013-02-12 Thread Rejy M Cyriac
On 02/12/2013 06:53 AM, Digimer wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone gotten an external monitor working on a Thinkpad W530 (or > similar, T530, etc) laptop? I've got Fedora 18 x86_64 running integrated > graphics only (I tried getting optimus to work but got tired and banging > my head on the wall).

Re: External monitor of Thinkpad W530

2013-02-12 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 12/02/2013 09:42, Roberto Ragusa wrote: On 02/12/2013 02:23 AM, Digimer wrote: Hi all, Has anyone gotten an external monitor working on a Thinkpad W530 (or similar, T530, etc) laptop? I've got Fedora 18 x86_64 running integrated graphics only (I tried getting optimus to work but got tir

Re: External monitor of Thinkpad W530

2013-02-12 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 02/12/2013 02:23 AM, Digimer wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone gotten an external monitor working on a Thinkpad W530 (or > similar, T530, etc) laptop? I've got Fedora 18 x86_64 running integrated > graphics only (I tried getting optimus to work but got tired and banging my > head on the wall

External monitor of Thinkpad W530

2013-02-11 Thread Digimer
Hi all, Has anyone gotten an external monitor working on a Thinkpad W530 (or similar, T530, etc) laptop? I've got Fedora 18 x86_64 running integrated graphics only (I tried getting optimus to work but got tired and banging my head on the wall). Any tips/pointers/gotchas will be much appr