Screen flicking with dual monitors in netbook remix on eeePC

[Timothy Rittman]

Binary package hint: xrandr

When I plug in a VGA cable to my EEE PC (1000HA - dual boot windows xp, ubuntu netbook remix) I have problems as outlined below. I've tried it on two monitors, one with partial success:

1. plugged in to 1680x1050 flatscreen monitor. Display appears with a resolution of 800x600. Changing the resolution through the monitor settings application results in both laptop and external screen flickering at about 2-3Hz and being unable to be read. I tried changing the resolution with xrandr (xrandr --output VGA1 --auto) which overlaid the laptop screen on to the external monitor. Trying to separate them (xrandr --output VGA1 --left-of LVDS1 caused the same appearance as above.

2. VGA connection to (I think 800x600) projector. Both screen flicker as above at about 2-3Hz. As I was about to give a presentation I didn't have time to play around with it, but switched to my back up plan (USB on windows!).

Let me know if any logs/outputs would be useful.

Tim Rittman

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi, you've reported several different (discrete) issues in one bug report, and some of these I think are already reported on other bugs.

There is no 'xrandr' package anymore (even though one is present in launchpad), so I'm moving this to xorg to be re-triaged. However at least some of the issues you've listed are issues in the control applet itself (gnome-desktop specifically).

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi Tim,

Could you please file separate bug reports for each of the issues you've encountered? For issues that seem to clearly be the configuration tool, file them using the command

  ubuntu-bug gnome-desktop

For everything else (or if you're uncertain), use the command:

  ubuntu-bug xorg

I'll close this bug report out at this time.

[Timothy Rittman (timothy-rittman)]

Hi Bryce,

Thanks for your interest. The bug has actually resolved with updates and I can't reproduce it now so I'll close the bug.

Thanks,

Tim