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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #1552040
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1552040

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Kai Mast (kai-mast) wrote : Re: Laptop sometimes doesn't detect external monitor

kai@kai-thinkpad:~$ sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date
GJET86WW (2.36 )
12/04/2015

So this is weird. I applied the latest updated and it says 2.36 not 2.37. The releasenotes also don't mention 2.37...

Unfortunately the problem still occurs with this BIOS version. I am 99% certain this problem is caused by a the kernel module and not a faulty bios.