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jyer

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Tuesday, August 1st 2006, 8:31pm

Hp F2105

Hi,
I've just bought myself a HP F2105 screen and want to run it with my laptop using kde on ubuntu (kubuntu). When the screen is plugged in on boot, all the boot process (you know, with the ubuntu splash screen) is diplayed fine on the F2105 (nothing is displayed on my laptop's screen).
At the login prompt the screen turns black and a text informs me that there's no input signal (the laptop monitor is still black). I'm then in front of a black F2105 screen, but I can access all the other ttys on the screen except for the seventh (the one that kde runs). It seems like the XServer doesn't support my screen, what could I do about that?
The odd thing is that when I plug the screen in while KDE is running, a very fizzy and not complete (about a third is missing) desktop displays on the F2105 (parallel to the one on my laptop). Though it is far from perfect (it's actually so fizzy that I can't read a thing), it seems pretty encouraging, no?
Last question, if we manage to solve the fist one, is it possible to use the F2105 as a second monitor, independant from the laptop's one? I mean, have a destop on each screen that I can access indepandently (have a movie play on one screen and browse the web on the other)?
Thanks a lot,
jr


Technicalities:
Laptop:Littlebit Razor Z81
Graphic: ATI Mobility Radeon 9700, 128 MB
Nb: I tried it with Win XP, it worked fine.

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Friday, August 4th 2006, 7:19pm

RE: Hp F2105

Ok, I found my way round the problem and can now use the new screen. Simply needed to modify my xorg.conf file.
Nevertheless, I still can't use both screen simultaneously. Has anyone heard about a specific drivers for laptops? I use a ATI Radeon graphic card...
Thanks,
jr

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Monday, October 30th 2006, 10:00pm

RE: Hp F2105

Since I've been questionned a few times about my xorg.conf file, here's a copy of the file I used. To be precise, I've since switched over to another one in order to use both my laptop and my f2105 screens together.

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Section "Device"
	Identifier	"ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility 9600/9700 M10/M11 (RV350 NP)"
	Driver		"ati"
	BusID		"PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Generic Monitor"
	Option		"DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Device		"ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility 9600/9700 M10/M11 (RV350 NP)"
	Monitor		"Generic Monitor"
	DefaultDepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		1
		Modes		"1680x1050"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		4
		Modes		"1680x1050"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		8
		Modes		"1680x1050"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		15
		Modes		"1680x1050"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		16
		Modes		"1680x1050"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		24
		Modes		"1680x1050"
	EndSubSection
EndSection


Hope it can come to use,
jr