Comment 5 for bug 1735976

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Francesc Llopis Malonda (pllopism-s) wrote : Re: [Bug 1735976] Re: Problem with secondary monitor and DVD player

Thank you!

El dia 7 des. 2017 8:25 a. m., "Ilan Tal" <email address hidden> va escriure:

> While this is not a security issue, it is an issue which may cause
> hardware damage.
> Turning the monitor on and off 10+ times during a boot can't add health to
> the monitor itself.
>
> This morning it took 3 failed attempts to boot up the computer.
> I thought perhaps manually turning off and on the monitor might help.
> It didn't. There is some loop in the boot code, at exactly the time where
> it presents the dialog which user to choose, which turned off again my
> manually turned on monitor. It will continue to audio click away, turning
> off and on the monitor.
> The end result is I can't use the computer. The only solution is to
> hardware turn off the computer itself and hope that maybe the next time
> around it just might catch itself in a good state without the endless loop
> when it is asking which user to choose.
>
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> Title:
> Problem with secondary monitor and DVD player
>
> Status in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> I use ubuntu from a few years on my portable HP Pavilion 14. In the last
> actualization to ubuntu 17.10, i can't connect my portable to a projector
> by HDMI. When i connect, the projector light blinks. If i change to only
> projector, it works good.
> Also, i have a problem with de DVD player. When i put a DVD film, it is
> not seen correctly with the DVD player of ubuntu, nor either with VLC.
> Can you tell me if in future revisions you can solve this problems? I
> don't want to change ubuntu by another linux system.
> thanks and sorry by my english language.
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