Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #354889
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 354889

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Derek (bugs-m8y) wrote :

"solved"
unfortunately, not in a way I'd like.

Back when I was in Ibex (which worked fine apart from crashing hedgears, an opengl/sdl game) ubuntu had reconfigured xorg.conf to support attaching it to another monitor as I did occasionally with this laptop.

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Monitor "Configured Monitor"
 Device "Configured Video Device"
# SubSection "Display"
# Virtual 2384 768
# EndSubSection
EndSection

Commenting out the virtual display fixed things - perhaps a memory issue with the large virtual size? WAG from someone who doesn't understand the internals.

This seems like an easy thing for users to trigger though :-/
And I suppose it means it will just try to make this change again, the next time I plug it into the external monitor.