Comment 3 for bug 400797

Forwarding this bug from Ubuntu reporter nickolai:
http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/400797

[Problem]
Running kernel 2.6.31-3.19 and xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.7.99.901+git20090702.74227141-0ubuntu1 on a Thinkpad W500 laptop, I cannot get xrandr to place the VGA output anywhere but to the right of the LVDS output.

[Discussion]
In particular, I used to be able to run "xrandr --output VGA --auto --above LVDS" or "xrandr --output VGA --auto --below LVDS" to get them stacked vertically with respect to each other. Now, these commands do nothing; the VGA output gets always placed to the right of LVDS and none of these xrandr invocations change it.

Another minor annoyance: previously, running "xrandr" would only list the state of the different outputs. Now, running "xrandr" seems to automatically enable the VGA output, without any request on my behalf to do so.

It turns out things are even worse than I originally stated for xrandr under KMS. The only thing xrandr appears to be able to do is to set every output to default mode, and arrange them horizontally. It's not possible to disable an output (xrandr --output VGA --off), or to change modes (xrandr --output VGA --mode 640x480); those commands have no effect at all.

Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jul 17 13:49:50 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: LENOVO 4058CTO
Package: xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=462b8d55-f4b6-40d1-bd10-0c0ce38ba988 ro
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-3.19-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.5~rc4-1ubuntu3
 libdrm2 2.4.11-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.7.99.901+git20090702.74227141-0ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090629.f39cafc5-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-3-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 09/24/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 6FET46WW (1.16 )
dmi.board.name: 4058CTO
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr6FET46WW(1.16):bd09/24/2008:svnLENOVO:pn4058CTO:pvrThinkPadW500:rvnLENOVO:rn4058CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 4058CTO
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad W500
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO