Comment 9 for bug 756818

With the Sansui monitor, I was able to install the nvidia-current package and get a stable display. nvidia-current had not helped with the Etronix 1701B monitor on which the edid was not read correctly. I am typing this on a Unity desktop on 14.04, so my problems seem to have been solved. I also tried on GNOME desktop with similar results.

My problem seems to have been a combination of hardware (edid not reading properly) and driver (nouveau) not working together, and I will so report publicly.