When starting up laptop thinks there is a vga monitor attached, but there is not

[Rick Spencer]

rick@rick-K53SV:~$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 32767 x 32767
LVDS1 connected primary 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 193mm
   1366x768 60.0*+
   1360x768 59.8 60.0
   1024x768 60.0
   800x600 60.3 56.2
   640x480 59.9
VGA2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VGA-1 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
   1024x768 60.0
   800x600 60.3 56.2
   848x480 60.0
   640x480 59.9
  1024x768 (0x43) 65.0MHz
        h: width 1024 start 1048 end 1184 total 1344 skew 0 clock 48.4KHz
        v: height 768 start 771 end 777 total 806 clock 60.0Hz
  800x600 (0x44) 40.0MHz
        h: width 800 start 840 end 968 total 1056 skew 0 clock 37.9KHz
        v: height 600 start 601 end 605 total 628 clock 60.3Hz
  800x600 (0x45) 36.0MHz
        h: width 800 start 824 end 896 total 1024 skew 0 clock 35.2KHz
        v: height 600 start 601 end 603 total 625 clock 56.2Hz

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-2.5-generic 3.11.0-rc5
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-2-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.12-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
Date: Thu Aug 15 09:10:46 2013
DistUpgraded: 2013-08-14 09:14:03,895 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: saucy
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0116] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:15f2]
 NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 540M] [10de:0df4] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:15f2]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-23 (113 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130423.1)
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K53SV
MarkForUpload: True
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-2-generic root=UUID=f6fdd2b0-ef68-4909-bca4-655662f88aec ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-08-14 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 06/17/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: K53SV.302
dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: K53SV
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrK53SV.302:bd06/17/2011:svnASUSTeKComputerInc.:pnK53SV:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnK53SV:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:ct9:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: K53SV
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.9~daily13.06.19~13.04-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.46-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.1.6-2ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.1.6-2ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.14.2.901-2ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu3.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.2.0-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.21.14-4ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.8-0ubuntu3
xserver.bootTime: Thu Aug 15 08:55:43 2013
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:
 Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
 Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
 NOUVEAU(G0): [XvMC] Failed to initialize extension.
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
 product id 9964
 vendor AUO
xserver.version: 2:1.14.2-0ubuntu9

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Yeah, nouveau thinks it has vga-1. Can you disable the dGPU from bios?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]