Sunday, July 03, 2022

Re: Docking station and external monitor

On Sun, 3 Jul 2022 11:29:16 +0200
"Tobias Fiebig" <tobias@reads-this-mailinglist.com> wrote:

> Heho,
> You have one of those fancy dual-cpu things (nvidia optimus); This
> can be somewhat difficult, see also:
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo_ThinkPad_T530
>
> "When using NVIDIA Optimus the Display port will not be accessible.
> To have access, change the GPU to discrete in BIOS and auto detect OS
> to false."
>
> It is about how they wired onboard and nv gpu together.
>
> With best regards,
> Tobias
>
> [...]
>
>

I have done that, and the behavior has not changed.

Another thing I noted changing the BIOS settings referred to is that
there is a Boot Display to be chosen. I'm a bit apprehensive about
changing this to one of the Dock Digital display choices, but I may
have to try that. It's currently set to ThinkPad LCD.

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Edward Ahlsen-Girard
Ft Walton Beach, FL

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