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    Eny 14 & OpenOffice: 5 screens detected?!?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by ademmer, Aug 18, 2010.

  1. ademmer

    ademmer Notebook Consultant

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    Hi,

    I use the latest OpenOffice with the Sun presenter console plugin, that shows slide comments on the laptop screen while showing the slides on the external display.

    Therefore, you need to configure OO to show the slides on display 2 after telling Windows to extend the desktop to the external display.

    Windows detected 2 screens, which is correct. OO detected 5 screens! After a bit of research, I saw that the ATI tool shows 5 graphic devices in some context menu while running on discrete graphics (two of em beeing the onboard Intel card, the other three being the ATI card). I guess that this could be the issue OO has.

    Normally, this would not be an issue. BUT: OO detects screen 3 to be the default screen (which it is obviously, because screen 3 is the first ATI entry in the context menu of the ATI tray tool) Screen 4 is the external display. Rather confusing, isn't it? The presenter console does only show up on screen 1 (which is physically not there because this would be the Intel card which has no connections at all).

    Any idea how to fix this? This isssue appears only with OpenOffice, haven't seen other software to stumble upon this...
     
    ademmer, Aug 18, 2010
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  2. MagusDraco

    MagusDraco Biiiiiiirrrrdmaaaaaaan

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    Blame the bios.


    maybe you can mess with Open Office's settings. Though I've never used open office. Was wondering why there are 5 displays in mine. I guess 3 of them for the ati are well the main display, the hdmi, and maybe the minidisplayport?

    guess the two intel are the main display and the minidisplay port since the hdmi port sure doesn't work on the intel card
     
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  3. ademmer

    ademmer Notebook Consultant

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    I thought none of the ports works with integrated graphics?
     
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    MagusDraco Biiiiiiirrrrdmaaaaaaan

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    I was just assuming that since there are two spots for the intel there may be 2 ports it can display from (even if it's usb somehow or something and not the minidisplayport)

    but who knows. Maybe there's two intels just because HP designed a weird laptop.
     
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  5. ademmer

    ademmer Notebook Consultant

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    I opened an issue in OOo bug tracker which was closed yesterday: OOo falsely displayed inactive ports which was fixed in latest OOo 3.3 Beta. Tried out, works fine.

    Just FYI!
     
    ademmer, Aug 21, 2010
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