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Hi,

I have installed Mageia LXDE on my netbook and it is running great. I am planning to replace the Linux Mint on my work laptop with Mageia, but I would like to make sure it works fine with docking station. Can some one confirm? Following are the things that I expect to work automatically.

1. When I connect my laptop on the docking station and have the laptop lid open, the display should be mirrored in both laptop and in external monitor with correct resolution.
2. When I connect my laptop on the docking station and have the laptop lid closed, the display should be in external monitor only, with correct resolution.
3. When I undock my laptop from the docking station, the display should automatically switch to laptop monitor, with correct resolution.
4. The above things should work no matter however many times I dock and undock my laptop on docking station. I haven't seen any Linux distro that takes care of these automatically. In Linux mint, I use the display properties before I dock or undock the laptop. I am having problems when I do it multiple times. At times, both laptop and external display goes blank and the only option I have is to do a hard reboot.
5. Even if #1, #2 and #3 works in Mageia, will it work irrespective of the DE that I use. I am going to try with Mageia KDE liveCD, but when I install on my laptop, I will probably go for LXDE as I always prefer light weight DEs.

Apparantly, windows handles all the first 3 points seamlessly.

Thanks,
Balaji.

You could at least mention what netbook and what docking station you're using ...

My work laptop is Dell Latitude E6410 with Intel Quad Core I7 processor, 8 GB RAM and 320 GB SSD. Docking station is also of Dell brand. I am not sure about the model.

Thanks,
Balaji.

No updates yet?

Thanks,
Balaji.

Please refrain from unnecessary additions.