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[Tim Tautges <tautges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

YES!  I have an edock, and I make about equal use of my e4300 with and without the dock.  In the dock, I have a 24" LCD 
monitor connected through DVI.  I typically suspend the laptop when I'm transitioning between the two states (yes, I 
know that doesn't restart the X server, but can't one reset the X server displays w/o killing the X server?).  I've 
observed the following symptoms:

- bringing the laptop out of suspend in the dock, the laptop display is used, whether the cover is open or closed, and 
the secondary monitor is dark
- sometimes, bringing the laptop out of suspend out of the dock, the laptop display is dark; typing my password, then 
closing and re-opening the lid, the display turns on again
- gnome-display-properties is only sometimes able to restore both laptop and desktop displays to turn on; sometimes it 
says something about needing to set a virtual display in xorg.conf, then telling me I have to log off and on again 
(which I've been trying to avoid in the first place)

There are many others, but they're all a mix of suspend on-off/dock-or-not/display issues.  I guess the biggest question 
I have is, is there some tool that allows me to reset the display section of the X server w/o killing X itself?  I've 
looked at xrandr, but haven't figured out the right combination of xorg.conf display section and xrandr input.

- tim

Bruce Weyrauch wrote:
> Hi all,
> First with the E-dock Plus:
> I finally got a chance to try out a dual 1680x1050 monitor setup.  Both
> monitors work correctly at their full resolution with DVI cables.  One
> oddity is that the background on the second monitor covers only about
> 1/4 of the screen horizontally.  I can place windows on that screen and
> they act normally, but the background stays with whatever I place on it
> last.
>
> With the E-dock:
> I got 1 1680x1050 monitor as the second monitor, and the laptop as the
> primary monitor.  Again, the second monitor has a large portion of the
> background initially black, and this portion of the background is never
> updated correctly.
>
> I read some info that this is a bug in the intel driver in xorg.
> Supposedly it may be fixed in Karmic.  I have a spare hard drive that I
> am using to experiment with Karmic, so I'll let you know.
>
> Anyone else had docking unit video issues?

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