Possible problem with graphic drivers on Dell laptop
by jazzo from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6GVBG)
Hi guys, I have a touch screen dell latitude E7270 with ubuntu 22.04 on it.
Now, it all worked fine until one day I decided that Iid plug my laptop to a docking station (a dell one) to see if I could connect multiple monitors to the laptop. I couldnit have more than 1 extra monitor working.
During that and after that problems started. The laptop appears to have a life of its own, a lot of applications open up on their own and on the screen it looks as if someone was clicking on different applications to open them and I canit reallyclose then because it switches focus automatically fromone app to the other. This happened while the laptop was connected to the docking station but now itis happening regardless of whether thatis the case or not. All I could do is to turn it off using the on/off button. When I turn it on it might work or not and I have to turn it off and onagain till it works.
I believe it has something to do with the graphuc drivers, but I donit know linux well enough to sort it out. I guess if I could use one set of drivers that allow me to 1) get rid of the issue and 2) manage to connect this to the docking station and allow extra monitors to work would be amazing.
Does anybody know exactly how to find out whatis wrong and ideally know how to proceedto fix it please?
Any help would be obviously much appreciated :-)
Thanks
Now, it all worked fine until one day I decided that Iid plug my laptop to a docking station (a dell one) to see if I could connect multiple monitors to the laptop. I couldnit have more than 1 extra monitor working.
During that and after that problems started. The laptop appears to have a life of its own, a lot of applications open up on their own and on the screen it looks as if someone was clicking on different applications to open them and I canit reallyclose then because it switches focus automatically fromone app to the other. This happened while the laptop was connected to the docking station but now itis happening regardless of whether thatis the case or not. All I could do is to turn it off using the on/off button. When I turn it on it might work or not and I have to turn it off and onagain till it works.
I believe it has something to do with the graphuc drivers, but I donit know linux well enough to sort it out. I guess if I could use one set of drivers that allow me to 1) get rid of the issue and 2) manage to connect this to the docking station and allow extra monitors to work would be amazing.
Does anybody know exactly how to find out whatis wrong and ideally know how to proceedto fix it please?
Any help would be obviously much appreciated :-)
Thanks