Comments on: Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron: Issues w/ external screen and Intel GMA950 (Dell Latitude D620)

By: Trinnity

Trinnity — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:05:08 +0000

Thanks for this info. I had a similar problem with Ubuntu 8.10 on my Asus 1000H netbook. When watching movies with the netbook hooked up to my Plasma TV as a monitor, it would randomly ‘Back Out’. Sounds and movie still ran, just no display on the external device. Turning off the Framebuffer compression as mentioned above has fixed the issue completely.

Regrads,

Michael

By: reute

reute — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:19:20 +0000

Had similar problems on mac mini (GMA950) w. ubuntu 8.04 on DVI displays. The above option seems to work here as well. Thanks!

By: tekkenlord

tekkenlord — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:17:16 +0000

Thank you, thank you! I had this problem on a dell inspiron 6400 with intel 945GM and I could not find out what’s wrong. Your solution works like a charm!

Regards

By: Nico

Nico — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:37:08 +0000

Hi, i have the same problem! Hope this helps, I’ll use it for a couple of days and then I’m going to comment how did it go!

If it works, you are a genious!!!!! =)

I’ve opened a bug, before reading this on: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/217804

Now i updated it referencing this workaround… hope it’s solved on the final release.

Thanks!