OK, going into the display settings control panel and making sure the laptop LVDS is _off_ and the DP is at native resolution worked. But if I reboot there is a good chance the DP monitor won't come up and I'll have to go through the whole dance of going to the console, running "DISPLAY=:0 xrandr --output LVDS1 --auto", using the laptop screen to run the monitor control panel, and transitioning back to using the DP monitor.
OK, going into the display settings control panel and making sure the laptop LVDS is _off_ and the DP is at native resolution worked. But if I reboot there is a good chance the DP monitor won't come up and I'll have to go through the whole dance of going to the console, running "DISPLAY=:0 xrandr --output LVDS1 --auto", using the laptop screen to run the monitor control panel, and transitioning back to using the DP monitor.