Driver for HP 2207 Display?

[riverguy99]

Does anyone know where I can find a driver that will work with the HP 2207 display? I'm running 12.04.

[Frogs Hair]

If there are any display/video drivers available for your computer they would be displayed in additional drivers.

[oldfred]

It usually is not the monitor that needs drivers but the video card.
What video card/chip do you have?
#To see video:
sudo lshw -c display
sudo lshw | grep -A 11 display
lspci | grep VGA
#Resolution:
xwininfo -root
What is installed
dkms status

[houstonbofh]

I have never installed a monitor driver in Linux. Why do you feel you need to? What is not working for you on that monitor?

[riverguy99]

This is a dual monitor setup. The computer is a Dell D620 laptop and the monitor is an HP 2207. I need both for my work. Right now, the 2207 is working fine, but setup will not allow me to extend the desktop onto the laptop. All I get is a mirror; the same info on both screens. Maybe I don't need a different dirver, but some way to expand my options in setup? If so, I'll move to that thread.

Thank you!

[Mark Phelps]

This is generally a video driver limitation.

When I installed Mint 16 on my desktop, I could only get one of my monitors to display. With previous Mint versions and Ubuntu versions, I could get BOTH monitors to display. When I then installed the AMD fglrx drivers, I could get BOTH monitors to display.

[houstonbofh]

Yep. This is your video card. What do you have? And what are you using to configure your displays?

Note: This works fine and as you need on my laptop with an Intel vidoe chip, and the stock monitor config from Gnome.

[riverguy99]

Well, this is a bit strange. I installed Ubuntu Tweak and played around with the setting in there and all of a sudden my two displays work great and the laptop is now an extension of the HP2207 display. I will NEVER change anything in Tweak again!

Thank you for your kind assistance!

[Yellow Pasque]

Mark thread solved.

[riverguy99]

One more detail on this, it seems that what actually fixed the issue was not installing Ubuntu Tweak, but it was actually switching to 2-D mode. I did the same thing on another laptop I just installed to a remote display and it worked again.