gnome-display-properties does nothing when selecting and external monitor and clicking apply

[unchiujar]

Binary package hint: x11-xserver-utils

When trying to add an external monitor/projector it works only ocasionally. Sometimes I have to restart X several times to get it to work.
This might be X or xrandr related because sometimes, when I try to change monitors through xrandr it also fails to do anything and it does not give any errors.

My videocard is
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

with the intel driver.

Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10

 x11-xserver-utils:
  Installed: 7.4+2
  Candidate: 7.4+2
  Version table:
 *** 7.4+2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27a0] (rev 03)
     Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Device [107b:0366]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a2] (rev 03)
     Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Device [107b:0366]

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi vasile-jureschi,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (and maybe Xorg.0.log.old) file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

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[unchiujar (vasile-jureschi)]

The problem seems to have fixed itself after updates so I cannot reproduce it anymore.
Regardless I attached the lspci output.

[Shang Wu (shangwu)]

I got the same issue today (or from the updates from the xserver-xorg-video-intel) yesterday.

Video card:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

Driver:
xserver-xorg-video-intel - Version: 2:2.8.1-1ubuntu1

Kernel:
2.6.31-10-generic-pae #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 11 00:30:46 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

xorg.conf was empty, after putting the old one back, the issue persist.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thanks for letting us know the issue is resolved.

Shang wu, you should file a different bug report.