[ubuntu-x] Ibex x server a little TOO hot-pluggy?

[Dan Kegel]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Bryce Harrington <bryce at canonical.com> wrote:
>> > With Ibex, however, that seems to have broken.  Several
>> > times I've moved the cable to discover that a
>> > machine which had been running fine the night
>> > before now is in reduced resolution mode, and
>> > a nasty "reduced resolution, want to troubleshoot?" (not verbatim)
>> > dialog is up instead of the test user's desktop.
>>
>> A few ideas:
>> 1) it might be a feature of the new nvidia driver?
>
> According to your logs, you seem to be running the -intel driver, no?

Brain damage.   Both instances were intel g33 graphics.

> Something is definitely crashing either X or the kernel and causing X to
> restart.  So that's certainly one issue you'll want to investigate.

Yep.

> The other issue is X not starting up without a monitor attached; I'd think
> this ought to work.  Probably worth filing a bug upstream.

That one doesn't both me as much.

> I'm curious that you believe it to be an nVidia graphics system when the
> logs say Intel.  Do the systems have an onboard graphics as well as a
> graphics card?  (Not that it should matter, but could explain the
> discrepancy in the log.)

Nope, each of my two systems has either nvidia or intel, but not
both.  I was just mistaken about which system was having the problem.

I'll post more only after I investigate a bunch more.

Thanks,
Dan