ubuntu 11.10 and dell system and monitor

[phantom21]

I have a dell poweredge sc440 and a just gotten dell s2209wb 22" monitor. I had been using a viewsonic ve150m. The system works fine with the viewsonic, but the dell s220 gives a message of vga cable not connected to vga on system startup. However, when I start the system with the viewsonic and then connect the dell the display works.

Can anyone give me some advice?

Thanks

Mark

[ALinuxWindowsBalance]

Maybe your VGA cable is bad.
Are you tying to double monitor?
Anyway, the Dell s2209wb has a DVI input. Does your computer?
DVI is better than VGA, in my opinion.
I connect a D600 to a HP w2207, and I use DVI, without a problem.
Does your keyboard have a fn+f8 style shortcut? Because it doesn't automatically detect it unless the system sends input.