Windows 7 on Latitude E6400

I was also having weird issues with the light sensor. Do you know if that's been solved with the new driver too?

 

explain what you mean, but im pretty sure that is exactly what im talking about.
195.39 is not the newest driver out there, but pretty close -- and i would strongly suggest installing it.

 

If you use the 195.39 driver.. make sure you don't have your laptop ON for several hour idling, while a second monitor is attached (well to teh display port anyway).

I had an issues where the laptop lock's up, the screen doesn't come back to the laptop when you open the screen lid, and I have to do a force shutdown. Very strange. But then again, it's beta driver and such issue should be expected.

 

i do this all the time, but admittedly connected to VGA rather than display port. are you sure this is a graphics driver problem?

 

No I am not.. but I can't really test this. The 186 drivers doesn't display gradients smoothly on Display port on my external monitor.. kinda strange it's like 16-bit colors... but 32-bit. It works fine on VGA... but I want to use Display port, cause my monitor has it, and the plug is on the back of the laptop, which helps on my laptop setup.

It's not a laptop stability problem as without having my monitor plug-in, I already let my laptop run for over 48hours idle.
It's ok though.. 'cause it only happens when my laptop is idle for extra long periods of time... which is rare as I use both my computer. In my case I use InputDirector (a free KM switch software), and control both, my desktop and laptop, with my desktop keyboard/mouse, and just switch with my monitor to witch source I want, or do side-by-side picture-in picture.

 

Hey all,

Loaded win7-64 on the box and have been updating drivers for the last couple days. I noticed dell had a big (.cab) bundle of drivers available as an alternative to pulling drivers down one by one, but the install instructions were zero, and thus (for me) it was worse than installing drivers one by one, because you end up with a big folder full of randomly numbered driver directories, and nothing that does any installing for you.

Has anyone succeeded in making use of the big bundle of drivers?

One very sad thing I found that I hoping there is a fix for: Unfortunately I have the Intel video, and I have found that I cannot extend my display onto my external monitor with both at full resolution.

If I set the external monitor to 1600x1200 which is native resolution, then the laptop display drops below the 1440x900 native. If I max the laptop display to its native resolution, then the external monitor drops to 1152x864.

Is this a hardware limit? Anyone suggest a workaround?

Finally - what drivers do I need to enable the following:

- volume buttons
- thumbprint reader

Thanks

 

I went one by one, after Windows update.

Make sure you have the have latest Intel drivers, also are you using VGA or Display port? Did you try the other port?

Dell ControlPoint application. For me, I got the screen brightness and all other on screen indicator to work, except the volume.. I used 3RVX as a replacement application for the volume. Also what I hated about Dell Control Point volume meter, is that it exists full screen videos, stole application focus (so you had to either hit on the "X" button of the indicator or wait until it decides to disappears), and even minimized games. The old Dell Control Point (version 1 and 2 for Vista worked great, since then it went to the worst)

 

you need to install both the dell security driver pack and the control point security application (wave embassy suite). both are located in the ControlPoint section of the downloads

 

Using DVI-D out from the mini-dock. I did update the Intel drivers to the latest ones posted on the last page there. I have not tried analog video yet. The best it seems I can get is 1280x1024 on the external display. When I push it beyond that the external display claims it's unable to display, and when I try to create a custom resolution (using the new driver's interface) the driver claims that the display is out of bandwidth. At this point I am just planning to live with 1280x1024 on my external display.

Thanks both you guys for the help on the thumb-reader. I will get that going now.

 

Your monitor is 60Hz right? Try 60Hz (60.001Hz) and 59Hz (59.997Hz).