External Monitor setup difficulties

[Badman27]

Hey all,
I'm operating xfce off of a Dell Latitude D510 and trying to setup my external monitor. The monitor is detected but I can't get it to do anything but mirror my primary display. The Graphics card is the "Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller"

So far I have A: looked for proprietary driver (none found)
B: tried editing the settings under Menu->Settings->Display (only detected one monitor and no add/detect)
C: Downloaded Intel's linux drivers (they came in a tarball)

Even though I downloaded the tarball I'm still pretty useless with Linux and don't exactly know what to do with it :_ )
I also went to Menu->Settings->Desktop, it was giving me the option to edit the wallpaper on either monitor but the function wasn't working. Changing one desktop changed them both.

Thanks alot for any and all help!

[Husse]

I have successfully set up Radeon and GeForce for dual monitors with one screen over both, but so far I have not experimented with my laptop and Intel
It should be the same as with the Radeon (open) driver which I used in Gloria no problems
Both my desktops and both monitors have VGA and DMI
I have to move the VGA cable from the not used desktop to my laptop
I can't have my primary desktop running then so this experimenting will take some time and I'll have to come back to you

[Husse]

I just checked with Helena main (decided to do some hands on - more fun ) and it is possible to mirror and shut down the laptop display, but if I try not to mirror I get two black displays with a mouse pointer in one of them
This takes some more work

[tanuki]

I'm getting the same problem you describe in your post above. I've got a TC4400 Tablet PC with the Intel graphics. When I attempt to have a side-by-side (e.g. non-mirrored) display setup using a typical Dell 15" LCD (same resolution, but 75 hz instead of the 60hz notebook monitor) - everything goes black.

I can see a 1 pixel width column on the left edge of one screen that I can fathom is displaying my wallpaper. My mouse cursor is perfectly visible over the black background, but nothing else. In the display panel, if I stack the screens on top of each other, the extended desktop works just fine. Damn is it annoying though, as a vertical orientation is just wonky.

Help!

[tanuki]

::::::::: bump !! ::::::::::::

[Badman27]

took me a while to get back here, but thanks for working on it Husse! also, glad I'm not the only one with this issue lol, misery (term used lightly here) loves company and all.

[Husse]

Oh just remembered - in Helena main I can get one screen if I put the monitors on top of each other, but not side by side

[COKEDUDE]

This may help.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolu ... %20monitor