Lenovo ThinkVision lt1421

[thebearbear]

hey everyone. Noob here!
Anyway, I hope this is the right forum. I was looking at getting a Lenovo ThinkVision lt1421 Usb LCD monitor as a portable monitor. I want something I can use for programming at school and such. I am fairly new to using linux, and I am not sure if anyone has experimented with this. It says it comes with drivers for redhat 6 but I am fairly sure that those won't work on 11.10 which is what I am using. I am curious if the monitor even needs driver? Has anyone experimented with this?
If it won't work does anyone have a portable screen that they use with their computer?
Thank you in advance.

tl;dr Does the Lenovo ThinkVision lt1421 work with natty

[nothingspecial]

Thread moved to Hardware & Laptops.

[Noneus]

It uses Display Link. In theory it should work.

[chmac]

Did you get one of these? Did it work with Ubuntu? A friend of mine has a USB powered monitor, a Philips one I think, and when I plugged it into my Lenovo X301 running Ubuntu 12.04 I got a green screen, no image, and the monitor wasn't detected by Ubuntu, so it didn't work at all. But this Lenovo model is really attractive, carrying a second monitor to use with a laptop sounds very appealing.

[seezlar]

I have just bought one of these mainly for use with a windows 7 laptop and was hoping I could get it to work with my RHEL work laptop and then an Ubuntu desktop if needed.

Win7 works great but so far can't get anything but a blank screen on RHEL so I tried with my Ubuntu 12.04 desktop to see if I could get any success so I then might have a better idea of how to get RHEL working.

I still have a few things to try but so far I am seeing some strange results. When connected, my main screen shows the usual desktop and the LT1421 shows an Ubuntu logo but the LT1421 is not shown in display settings so I can't add it as a second monitor. However, if I switch to console mode, the console is shown on the LT1421 and my main monitor goes blank. The console looks ok until text scrolling occurs and the text becomes a bit garbled.

If anyone has any ideas on getting this working properly, it would be greatly appreciated. I guess it might need me to post the xorg.conf.

Also, if I do get it working, I will let you know

[chmac]

Great to hear that there is at least some hope, thanks seezlar. You're getting better than a green screen at least!