At first this looked promising because the machine did start up with both displays working, and I could switch it to using only the external display. However, after toggling through setups a few times using Fn-F7, eventually the machine got stuck with neither display active; after about ten seconds in that state in spontaneously powered down.
From Bryce's #29, I tested acelan's kernel from http:// people. canonical. com/~acelan/ bugs/lp753189/ linux-image- 2.6.38- 8-generic
At first this looked promising because the machine did start up with both displays working, and I could switch it to using only the external display. However, after toggling through setups a few times using Fn-F7, eventually the machine got stuck with neither display active; after about ten seconds in that state in spontaneously powered down.