<div>On 12/31/05, Mark Menzies <<a href="mailto:mark.menzies@lumison.net">mark.menzies@lumison.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi all I have a laptop running ubuntu which runs great undocked, but when I dock the laptop, it doesn`t detect the new monitor nor the bigger screen res that its capable of. I have the laptop dual booting with XP, and XP detects the new monitor and changes the screen res depending on whether or not I am docked etc. I have to use windows for some of the apps that I need to access but I prefer to run linux as a normal desktop, so any assistance would be great here. The laptop is a dell lattitude 505. ta in advance. Mark -- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender. Any offers or quotation of service are subject to formal specification. Errors and omissions excepted. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Lumison, nplusone or lightershade ltd. Finally, the recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. Lumison, nplusone and lightershade ltd accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. -- -- Virus scanned by Lumison. -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com </a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> Hi Mark, I had the same problem before with my inspiron 700m. Is the laptop and the monitor running the same resolution? I fixed mine with 855crt, but I had to run the same resolution between laptop and external monitor. I dont know if it will work with your laptop though since I dont know what videocard the Latitude 505 is running. Charles -- "It is unwise to pay to much, but it is worse to pay too little; you sometimes lose everything becuase the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do"