At work, I have been assigned a Dell Latitude C840 notebook computer and
along with it a Dell Latitude C/Dock II and a Dell 2000FP display.
The notebook came with Windows XP (ugh!), but I successfully shrunk the
Windows partition significantly and have installed Red Hat Linux 7.3 on
it (yea!). RH7.3 works just fine, but I have some problems with the
differences between having the notebook docked and undocked.
The docked configuration has
external display (Dell 2000FP)
external mouse
external speakers
ethernet connection via the dock (eth1)
The undocked configuration has
internal display
internal trackpad
internal speakers
ethernet connection via internal NIC (eth0)
How do I tell Linux to switch between the two sets of hardware?
Thanks,
Craig
P.S. I tried to mount the Winders partition while in Linux, as I have
done
in the past to access files there, but with XP I get the message
that
the kernel does not support file system type ntfs. Any ways around
that?
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