sony-vaio-z-series team mailing list archive

[Simon Brown <lists@xxxxxxxx>]

At Fri, 10 Aug 2012 10:24:54 +0200,
Sjoerd Cranen wrote:
> >From what I have seen and heard so far, it doesn't seem possible, but on
> the off chance that one of you has found a way: is it possible to have a
> Z12 connected to two external monitors? All I really want is that when
> docked, the laptop screen is disabled in favour of an external monitor.
> 
> In Ubuntu 12.04, I can detect both external monitors (DFP-1 and CRT-0,
> DFP-2 is my laptop screen), but it seems to refuse to use DFP-1 and CRT-0.
> The other two combinations work fine. It would be very helpful if any of
> you know how to do it, or can provide me with a definite "no".

I don't know if this works, but have you tried the following?

Monitor A attached to the DVI output in the docking station
Monitor B attached to the hdmi output on the laptop

I imagine you'll have to have the Nvidia card active.

If it were me, I'd also get the beta Nvidia driver from the X Updates
PPA so that you can use the normal Ubuntu monitor configuration tools
rather than Nvidia Settings.

Simon