Comment 15 for bug 16842

hey, can you re-open? I have an 1800t, and will stay with you until you can close this out. I'm having this same issue, am a Linux/Ubuntu newbie (sorry) but hopefully I won't be too painful...

Here's what I've observed/done...

1st - when i boot, everything looks fine until the login prompt screen comes up... the screen paints but there is a vertical blur in the middle and the screen on each side of that line is similar (like the screen is being split and overwritten half way, weird).

2nd - NEW FACT FOR YOU - when I press Fn-F3 (this laptops key combo to switch to an external monitor) TWICE (switch to and back), the screen comes back fine without the blur... weird. I figured this out on a fluke but it works as a temporary workaround for those trying to get through the install.

3rd - I overwrote my xorg.conf file with this one http://launchpadlibrarian.net/1509936/xorg.conf and restarted. result - still get the blur on the login screen, do my fn-f3 combo twice, login, and now i have 1024x768 resolution (instead of 800x600).

So that file helped for sure, but i'm still getting the weirdness until I switch the internal display on/off.

Any thoughts?