Comment 30 for bug 737891

I installed Natty Beta2 this weekend on my HP laptop. I run it with an Acer 22" external monitor. I prefer the big screen (to the left) as primary and the laptop screen (to the right) for email and IM.

I only had to edit the ~/.config/monitors.xml to set the VGA screen to primary to get the setup I needed. After some updates this weekend, i can no longer get the external monitor to work with Unity. On bootup I get both screens with the login screen on the laptop. If I choose Unity, the external monitor freaks out like this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK5AfUzg6UA

Mean while the laptop screen has a freely moving mouse, but not much else. If I go into Ubuntu classic mode, I get Gnome 2 and the resolutions work just fine. When I try Unity again it freaks out.

I've tried deleting the ~/.config and restarting. That seemed to have helped......until I restarted. The odd thing is that somehow my "left is primary" was retained even without the monitor.xml. When the view DOES come up it looks like this...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tubatodd/5657189985/