uh, strange. while I failed all the morning in my attempt to switch to dual screen (see my above report), it's now working! And I've obviously not changed anything, nor rebooted nor done anything (except coding and mailing ;-)
here is the output from Xorg.0.log, just after the successful switch to dual screen: (II) intel(0): EDID vendor "SAM", prod id 170 (II) intel(0): EDID vendor "LPL", prod id 3073 (II) intel(0): DDCModeFromDetailedTiming: 1280x800 Warning: We only handle seperate sync. (II) intel(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines: (II) intel(0): Modeline "1280x800"x0.0 72.17 1280 1320 1352 1432 800 808 816 840 -hsync -vsync (50.4 kHz) (II) intel(0): Modeline "1280x800"x0.0 72.17 1280 1320 1352 1432 800 808 816 840 -hsync -vsync (50.4 kHz) (II) intel(0): EDID vendor "LPL", prod id 3073 (II) intel(0): DDCModeFromDetailedTiming: 1280x800 Warning: We only handle seperate sync. still Intrepid/Gnome on a Dell Latitude D630... -- Flickering with version 2.4.0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256142 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs