[ltp] docking with DVI problem

André Wyrwa linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 06 Nov 2005 12:59:52 +0100


Hi,

> I have a T40 (2373) with a radeon 7500 mobile and a ultradock II. I got a new 
> 20' TFT which I wanna use via DVI. I am confused about different information 
> about DVI:
> 
> - Ultradock supports only 1280x1024 (but I could find comments, which 
> mentioned that this is enforced via software and only applies to windows)

I guess you mean the full dock ii? It is a software limitation and is 
solved with the latest IBM drivers. See 
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_DVI_throughput .

> - the radeon driver (from xorg) doesn't supports the dvi port. I tried the 
> driver from Alex Deucher's posting  (20.02.2005) but I had no success with 
> this one too.

You can try the fglrx drivers, but i don't know if they work on that 
card at all.

André.