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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #258584
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 258584

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Nicolas Grilly (nicolas-grilly) wrote :

I agree with the previous comment. My teammate had exactly the same problem today. He changed its screen resolution to a too high value and screen became black. We were forced to use a console to login and manually remove the file $HOME/.config/monitors.xml.

After each change to the display configuration, gnome-display-properties should wait 15 seconds for a user confirmation. Without any confirmation, gnome-display-properties should revert to the previous configuration.

Here is two related threads on Ubuntu Forums by people having the same issue:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=757018
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=969066

Thanks!