cannot use only external LCD monitor with laptop
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Bug Description
I just bought a new laptop. I like to connect it to an external monitor, and configure the displays such that the laptop screen is off, and the external monitor is set to max resolution.
When I do make this change in the displays/monitors configuration, both displays go dark. After the "keep settings?" timeout expires, only the mouse cursor is visible. To use X again, I can hit CTRL-ALT-F1 to switch to a virtual terminal and pkill X... X restarts, I see the login screen and can log back into X.
The laptop is a http://
I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 (natty). Kernel is 2.6.38-
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
DistroCodename: natty
Architecture: i386
[lspci]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 18) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device d000
Using the latest kernel from the kernel ppa (2.6.39. 0.1~20110419) fixed the issue. Yay!
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kernel-ppa/ppa
sudo apt-get install linux-generic-pae
sudo reboot
(I can't figure out how to resolve this issue, otherwise I would)