Boot an alpha-2 livecd (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/12.04/alpha-2/) and assuming that works properly, collect the Xorg.0.log, xrandr --verbose, and dmesg from that, to compare with. It's odd that it doesn't show an LVDS output, I wonder if it did previously.
Also, just so I understand your report, are you trying to connect the external display to the VGA port or to the eDP port?
Boot an alpha-2 livecd (http:// cdimage. ubuntu. com/releases/ 12.04/alpha- 2/) and assuming that works properly, collect the Xorg.0.log, xrandr --verbose, and dmesg from that, to compare with. It's odd that it doesn't show an LVDS output, I wonder if it did previously.
Also, just so I understand your report, are you trying to connect the external display to the VGA port or to the eDP port?