From: mercer_at_rahul.net
Date: Thu Nov 01 2001 - 22:29:45 EST
I have an A21p, which has the same ATI Rage Mobility 128 chipset as your A20p.
I went to the Dell support site and downloaded the ATI Rage Mobility 128 driver from their Latitude C800 page and installed it on XP. Works great for me. This puts the ATI tabs back into the Display settings window. These are Win2K drivers but I've been running them for weeks on my A21p. There's a good chance Dell will post XP drivers before IBM.
Here's a direct link to the download page:
http://support.dell.com/us/en/filelib/download/index.asp?fileid=r29628
The web page names a bunch of ATI video chipsets this driver supports and the Rage 128 is listed.
I just noticed there is an actual XP driver set on the Dell web site. I haven't tried it but I have high confidence they will work. Here's the long long link:
Also, perhaps the method you should try first is to use XP's built in Windows Update feature. It offered and installed a new ATI video driver for me on a Dell laptop with a Rage M4 video chipset (though it called it an M3 driver.) Works fine.
Any of these methods will get you newer drivers and the ATI specific tabs but I don't know if your specific problem is addressed. I just tried it (11/1/01) and it didn't offer a driver for my A21p.
Paul
At 03:11 PM 11/1/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>I am having a problem with my A20p and IBM docking station. It seems that I can t watch videos on my external monitor when docked. I posted this problem to the IBM support group some time ago and one of the IBM reps said to change my default monitor in the ATI tabs in Display/Properties.
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>This worked in Win2000, however I had to reboot my machine each time (i.e. whenever I would redock from being undocked, I had to go through the above steps). IBM hadn t a clue as to what to do, but I managed.
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>I have since upgraded to WinXP and am using the stock drivers that came with the OS. Everything is working, but I am back to not being able to see videos. I just purchased an IBM Net Camera Pro and can t see live video (although if I record something, it plays back fine, which is odd).
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>The XP drivers do not include the ATI tabs that were included in the Win2000 drivers. IBM hasn t really commented on when drivers will be available.
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>Has anyone had these problems before? I don t think I should have had to go through these steps even with Win2000. This leads me to believe that I have something configured incorrectly.
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>Thanks,
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