Comment 6 for bug 390816

This has not been a problem with my Dell XPS 1330 laptop with Janty or Karmic , until the latest round of fixes this monrning. It is 100% reproducible.

If you shut the lid on the laptop , it now blanks the external monitor screen. As I wish to use my laptop in the office this is a massive problem as I'm having to prop the lid open to stop it powering off the external monitor. This is definitely a regression, as I have been using this features for many months. It may also be connected to another bug that has been reported about the lack of ability to set the external monitor and laptop monitor to have seperate screen resolutions. I have attached a screenshot of the current gnome-power-preferences settings.

Ubunty: 9.10 beta x86_64
Kernel: 2.6.31-13
Machine: Dell XPS 1330
Memory:2.5 Gig
Graphics Card:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
 Subsystem: Dell Device 0209
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 29
 Memory at fea00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
 Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
 I/O ports at eff8 [size=8]
 Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+