Laptop's boot time information is output to an external display (only) even if it is turned off

[Jarno Suni]

At least in 8.04 and 8.10.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Turn off external monitor
2) Connect it to laptop
3) Turn on laptop to boot ubuntu

Result: No splash screen or other boot information is displayed in laptop's own display before login screen that is displayed also in laptop's own display..

I expect such information displayed only in laptop's own display, if external display is turned off, but only in an external display, if it is connected and turned on. (laptop's display and external display may have different aspect ratio and display resolution.)

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Jarno,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid.

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 302313

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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