Do a full clean install of 9.04. The netbook remix is very flakey on the 2133. There have been reports that it does not work at all, though some get it going. The UNR is optimized for Atom based netbooks AFAIK. One thing about the 2133 everyone thinking of buying one should know: the AMD processor is really REALLY poor!

good luck!

I just bought today an HP-Mini 2133 and the main reason I bought it compared to a 2140 was the better resolution of 1280×768

But, I’m having problems with that so far… it didn’t work with the Suse version it came with, so I decided to install Ubuntu 9.04 (the full version) but still didn’t work well.

Now, I’m in the middle of a new installation of Ubuntu Jaunty but now the Netbook Remix.

I wanted to ask you, did you do a fresh install or an upgrade? And, was it from the full version of Ubuntu 9.04 or the Netbook Remix?

Thank you

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type “man xorg.conf” at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section “Device”
Identifier “Configured Video Device”
Driver “openchrome”
Option “SWCursor” “true”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Configured Monitor”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Default Screen”
Monitor “Configured Monitor”
Device “Configured Video Device”
EndSection

notes:

the cursor on the external monitor is set using the SWCursor option as you would have known if you bothered to read rather than just ask. Software cursors suck and I leave that line commented out unless I am going to run on the external
the device and monitor are both autodetected, so if you change the monitor (eg add a new one) you will have to restart the xserver.
The hardware in the 2133 comes in various flavours. Your mileage may vary

Section “Device”
Identifier “Configured Video Device”
Option “ActiveDevice” “LCD, CRT”
Option “SWCursor” “on”
EndSection

IT WORKS – It’s the Option “ActiveDevice” “LCD, CRT” bit that does it!!

The only changes I made to the default Ubuntu xorg.conf are in the device section. The complete section is:

Section “Device”
Identifier “Configured Video Device”
Driver “openchrome”
# Option “SWCursor” “true”
EndSection

I leave the software cursor option commented out unless I am going to be using the external monitor. My TV will run the same resolution as the 2133’s panel – 1280×768, so I have had no issue with trying to make it run higher res.

Could you please post your xorg.conf?

I also have an HP 2133 and didn’t have any external monitor working initially after installing kubuntu 9.04.

Did some changes to xorg.conf that allowed single screen mode using VGA, haven’t managed though yet to get an external monitor to work with a resolution higher than the maximum supported by the netbook’s LCD screen.

So for non-widescreen VGA monitors the maximum properly showing resolution i can get is 1024×768.

Here is how my xorg.conf looks like at the moment

Section “Device”
Identifier “Configured Video Device”
Option “ActiveDevice” “LCD, CRT”
Option “SWCursor” “on”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Configured Monitor”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Default Screen”
Monitor “Configured Monitor”
Device “Configured Video Device”
EndSection

Cheers bl1nk.