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virusso80

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-03-09

Posts: 325

Usb expansion dock station with arch

Hi guys,
I'm the owner of a dell xps m1330 and i was wondering to buy the kingston exapsion dock station with the video out. It is connected to the laptop using a usb cable.

I know it works with winzozz obviously, but i don't know anything about its support with linux.

Is there any problem to transmit video out through usb to the dock and then to the external video lcd?

thanks in advance

ruffedgz

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From: Michigan

Registered: 2009-07-23

Posts: 54

Re: Usb expansion dock station with arch

What kind of video card do you have?

Just from my Dell XPS m1530, I have a nvidia card and within "System >> Preferences >> NVIDIA Server Settings", I am able to plug in a VGA cable on the side and have it recognize it almost instantly. I know tried it on a projector but still, it that worked, I would say you should be ok with the monitor part.

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Arch linux i686 | Dell XPS m1530 | Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz | 3 GB RAM | 250GB HDD

virusso80

Member

From: Italy

Registered: 2007-03-09

Posts: 325

Re: Usb expansion dock station with arch

i have a nvidia card too. I know it works plugging directly the monitor to the laptop. My issue was about the use of a dock station with many usb ports, audio in, VGA port etc, connected to the laptop using  a usb cable.

I guess it might not work because drivers able to transfer video through usb cable...maybe don't exist...but i don't know!