On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote: > > It was a small aside about the way that devices do/don't announce themselves, > and the difficulties that OSs sometimes have in recognising them. I freely > admit that although I've had the monitor for at least 6 months now I haven't > tested to see whether the DV input is now supported in the kernel, so I don't > know whether it is a driver problem or the 'announce' problem. > > It's not significant, in detail terms, to the thread, but there is some > correlation. > It might have something to do with your video card - not all of them have drivers that are flexible or considerate enough to just switch from one port to the other. Mine's an nvidia geForce 7100gs, and I am using the nvidia driver (not sure if I rebooted to the rpmforge one or am still running the nvidia original yet or not) but they seem to be rather accommodating. HTH. mhr