Dual Monitor on Dell Lititude D620 and Gutsy Gibbon Beta

[tarmitag99]

Having so far failed miserably to get dual monitors working on my Dell latitude D620 in the 7.04 release I read about the changes to come in 7.10 and decided to immediately move to the beta release of 7.10 and see how things go.

I've made sure that as of this morning all my packages are completely up to date.

Having logged in for the first time I don't get the 1440 x 900 native resolution but I figure I can configure this - so I open the Screens and Graphics tool and start trying to configure everything.

Firstly I notice it has two Graphics Cards showing

The i810 Intel Integrated Graphics Chip and a Generic VESA Compliant Card

It also sees two screen (both labelled unknown).

No matter what I do I cant set either to 1440 x 900 and cant get to extend the desktop to a second screen.

Surely this should work by know - its the only thing that stops me using Ubuntu 100% of the time (this is so easy to do in Windows).

Update - After much messing around I can get an extended screen but not at proper resolution (I am using an external Dell 1905FP on an analog output (I've tried the digital out on a docking station but that gets me no further!!)

Has anyone got this to work reliably - if so please share the secret.