[SOLVED] How do I use Lubuntu on Dell Latitude E6410 laptop
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How do I use Lubuntu on Dell Latitude E6410 laptop
Hi,
Yesterday, I decided to take open source road for good on my personal laptop. Since I didn't want bloat, I went for Lubuntu. Also because I liked the ease of the installer. Anyway, when I installed Lubuntu, my laptop was undocked because it was done at the office. Everything went well and tried it for a few minutes then brought it home. At home, the laptop is going to be docked, lid closed with 2 external monitors. Well, that's where I hit a huge wall. I docked the laptop, powered it on and nothing showed onscreen. Both monitors blank. So I opened the laptop, and its screen was blank too. Held down the power button to do a hard shutdown and powered it back on with the lid open. This time the monitors did come on but all I got was a mouse cursor in the middle of the screen. I'm going to continue looking for answers but wanted to start a thread here for future reference and to get your feedback/advice. Thank you.
Last edited by caffewmilk; 09-18-2015 at 07:38 AM.
As a test, try plugging one of the external monitors directly into the laptop if it has a socket and checking whether it is detected. If it is, that will identify the docking bay as the primary suspect.
Also, check for a hardware key to activate the external monitor connection; all my Dells have had one, usually on one of the function keys with a little picture intended to represent a laptop screen and a monitor side by side.
The dock is just a port replicator and from the laptop's Windows days, I remember that it can only drive 2 displays at time: laptop + 1 external or laptop closed with 2 external.
Well, turned on the laptop undocked and everything works fine. Docked it and nothing on the external display, though it did find the wireless keyboard & mouse and the wired connection right away. Tried the Fn + F8 key combo to switch to external and nothing happened. Went ahead and rebooted while docked, all I got was a plain login screen with a non-responsive mouse cursor in the middle. Did a Ctrl-Alt F1, got a terminal window, logged in, and issued a poweroff command, then undocked the laptop. I just wrote all this on it.
Attached is the output of lspci -nnk > lat6410.txt command.
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