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I have a Dell Mini 1010 (wich has a GMA500/Poulsbo video card) with Ubuntu 12.04, everything works fine except the HDMI output. When I plug in a HDMI cable just nothing happens. When I look at the screen settings it says that there´s just one screen: the default laptop screen.

Could someone help me to fix this problem??

Thanks!

Tatjana Heuser
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HDMI used to work like a charm in 10.10. I was surprised to find out that it doesn't work anymore after upgrading to 12.04. I specifically waited until 12.04 to upgrade as it seemed that the drivers were in good shape.

Since I use my dell to give presentations every week, I just boot to windows and setup the dual screen. Then, when I boot back to Linux, it magically works -- the chipset keeps the settings and ubuntu doesn't overwrite them. It gets the job done.

Mateo
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Dejan Jovanović
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I saw this answer for your question https://askubuntu.com/a/120894
Dell Mini HDMI port is unsupported. This seems to be some kind of external bridge chip.**

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