This laptop works great by itself now including suspend/resume.

However, when i attach external monitor to it there are crashes with configuring it and when resuming from suspend if monitor got detached.
It also show some minor non optimal behaviours.

I can boot with or later attach external monitor and use it perfectly, but if i detach it or it suspends or hibernates... session get lost (and users work...)

It is a Thinkpad T61p, Nvidia Quadro FX570M; G84GLM
Using 64 bit mga6, proprietary Nvidia driver, KDE, Plasma.
Internal resolution 1920x1200, external 2560x1600

In KDE settings it is as default; laptop monitor is main monitor, but it is not entirely respected.

Also, by default the external is at right of laptop, and in tests below i have it like that default.  But if i in KDE settings move it to left of laptop, it gets the KDE panel at bottom, despite i still have the settings that the laptop should be main.  So the logic where to put the panel is borked.

However that is a small issue compared to the crashes...

One easy way to crash it is by in that dialog put the screens with a bit overlap, (i do not know why that is possible) and save. I then get xmessage "Could not start kmserver. OK that and am back at login.  And on following logins it crash immediately and i am back at login, repeatedly...

To get out of it I booted without external screen, there was no KDE panel on laptop, but now i could attach external screen and there is KDE tray.  The setting of overlapped window was forgotten.  To be able to use laptop without external monitor, i have to configure external monitor to be at right of laptop in KDE settings, or else KDE panel is not on the laptop monitor. *stupid*


Now i try describe what works;

__Booting with external screen attached

The login screen is shown on both monitors. Focus is on the external monitor. I can log in there, or i can move mouse over to laptop monitor and log in there.

Regardless of where i log in, the KDE panel is on laptop only, and when i launch first programs it show up there, and i can drag to other monitor.

When i launch next program it launch on the screen where current active program window is.

I find this is all OK (taste of how it would optimally work are individual)


__Switching to text consoles using Ctrl-Alt-Fn; n={2..6}
Works nicely: Laptop monitor used, external is blackened
switching back to number 1 both monitor shows desktop
= OK

__Shutting down with external monitor still attached
OK

__Attaching external monitor after boot

Except for the boot log (of course) in it works as per above.

__Screen lock dialog, shown after some time of inactivity

Shows on both monitors, focus in the one on laptop monitor, logs in OK

__Log out with external attached

Log out confirmation dialog is only shown on external = NOT OK

It should show on both  (or at least the monitor where log out was issued = where KDE panel is = the laptop monitor)

__Log in after having logged out, external monitor still attached

Works like booting with external monitor attached

__Suspend, resume with external monitor still attached

Login screen is shown on both monitors, but background light is off on laptop... NOT OK  (this is when it have timed out by itself ans first shut down monitor and later suspended)

And when i have entered login on external monitor there is a message dialog "Could not start kmserver" ans something more for a second, then black, then both monitors get login screen, now background light have been switched on.
But there is immediately a xmessage on laptop monitor "Could not start kmserver. Check your installation   [okay]", and on external monitor message dialog in KDE style about the same. The restart program button make no visible change.

__Hibernate, resume with external monitor still attached
Upon resuming it reloads whole image OK according to text on laptop screen, then it just sits there maybe ten seconds, then black for maybe 20 s, then 
lots of text scrolling, then login screens om both monitors, laptop has focus, i log in, mageia logo cauldron bubbles... i see Plasma desktop and xmessage "Could not start kmserver". And session is lost 
I click OK on it, there is immediately another one then screen blacks and i am back at login... logging in again it takes some clicks and a minute wait for Kmenu to react...

__Detaching external monitor at login screen
-> laptop screen go black!
I can switch to i.e vt2 (Ctrl-Alt-F2) (back to 1 is still black) and from vt2 reboot.


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I did only test this briefly on Mageia5, but IIRC no crash; = regression

... the dual booted MSW7pro does not work perfectly either - including bluescreen, but better than this at the moment  - lets beat it :) 


=== Below is note to self what to test later when things start to work ===

__Suspend while external monitor attached, resume with it monitor REMOVED


__Hibernate, resume with external monitor REMOVED


__Booted and suspended without external monitor, attached monitor then resume


__Booted and hibernated without external monitor, attached monitor then resume