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xserver-xorg-video-mga package

  1. Bug #292214
  2. Comment #72

Comment 72 for bug 292214

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jo (jventure) wrote :

Unfortunately these solutions do not work for me (on a G550). I tried Ubuntu 8.04, 9.04, 9.10 and 10.04 Beta2 with and without the patch. Without the patch I always get the same picture on both screens. With the patch (tried only 8.04 - 9.10, not 10.04 Beta2), my monitor at the DVI port turns off (standby) and the monitor at the VGA port stays on with a black screen. The system freezes I think, because I cannot do anything, not even switch to a different console (CTRL+ALT+F1).

On the boot process I always have to include 'vga=0x31a' to kernel parameters because otherwise the DVI port monitor shows out of sync (even when I 'force' the correct settings in xorg.conf), and the VGA port monitor stays off.

Any suggestions very welcome. Could it be that it works for some because of different hardware (mainboard, RAM etc)?

(Right now I am stuck with openSUSE and mergedFB view which I really do not like.)