signal external monitor intel vs nvidia

[JoJo jojo]

its possible, that the plug really is loose .

intel is treating it as connect-disconnect-connect (hot-plugging)
while you wiggle the plug

Nvidia is treating it as connected(detected once)

just saying.....

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Albert Vilella <avilella at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a 2 year old Sony Vaio SZ1XP with a double graphics card
> configuration, nvidia and intel.
>
> Recently, xrandr is failing to recognize the external screen using the intel
> configuration, but one can
>  make it work by wiggling the plug a bit. This doesn't seem to happen with
> the nvidia configuration,
> although the socket is obviously the same.
>
> Is there any reason why this should happen with one card and not the other?
> Can one card send a
>  stronger signal than the other through the same physical socket?
>
> The intel drivers are great, although because the two screens are bigger
> than 2048 in width, I cannot
> get DRI to work. So add another user who would benefit from that feature to
> the list :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
>     Albert.
>
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