Comment 25 for bug 68370

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David Noble (david-noble) wrote :

My sad story had a happy ending...

I wanted to use an external monitor for giving presentations with an HP dv4000 laptop running Edgy. The output was extremely wavy with i810switch, so I followed the instructions here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HowtoSetupExternalMonitorForIntel915

The mouse froze when logging in with a cloned display, but otherwise things looked good. When I skipped the screenlock by adding the "-l" option to gdmflexiserver, everything worked great.

That doesn't sound too bad, but it took several hours of chasing down blind alleys and trying things that didn't help.