hardy release freeze, coming soon to an archive near you

[Gary Sandine]

Vincenzo,

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:54:32AM +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/137234
> 
> because it always worked before gutsy, and it is a pity that when
> I go around the world at conferences, instead of showing my shiny
> ubuntu desktop and make good publicity to it, I have to say that
> ubuntu breaks my vgaout hence I want someone else's laptop (no, I
> don't reboot in windows, that would be too bad publicity for
> myself :) ).

By any chance have you tried the xrandr suggestion at the top of the
bug report?  I have been using my laptop with the "intel" driver for
presentations running gutsy and hardy, and when I plug in a
projector:

xrandr --auto

turns on the external VGA.

Regards,
-- 
Gary Sandine <gars at lanl.gov>