<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I come across to read the thread at http://archives.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/2013-January/062818.html</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I have the same problem that after video driver is installed with packages bumblebee and bumblebee-nvidia. Command `xrandr -q` doesn't detect VGA1 monitor, only showing VGA1 disconnected. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">BIOS driver is configured to </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Boot Display Device: ThinkPad LCD</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Graphics Device: NVIDIA Optmus</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">OS Detection for NVIDIA Optimus: Disabled</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Changing Graphics Device to Discrete Graphics will have Xorg.0.log logged with message something like "Fail to load module nv". </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">arandr also shows LVDS as well. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">How can I detect external monitor? </span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">I appreciate any suggestion.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times,
serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Thank you.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Os: debian amd64 (testing jessie)</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Kernel: 3.2.04
rt</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">laptop: w530</div></div></body></html>