Public bug reported:
I'm not sure where this problem is, I'm going to need some guidance here
as I'm new to all this! Anyway, this seems like a fairly basic
problem...
I'm running intrepid on an old Dell Inspiron 1100 (and yes also getting
bug 285323, but this isn't a duplicate even if it is display related...)
and it doesn't detect the laptop's display as a display in the monitor
resolution settings when it bothers to use the display at all. Power
manager only adjusts the displays brightness when it starts off on full,
otherwise the bar is a slider of nothing at all. It detects external
monitors just fine, and even comes up with alternative resolutions for
them (gasp!) but when one is detected, it not only fails to detect but
also doesn't use the laptop display at all. Sometimes (I thought it was
just when the bios was starting it up on anything other than full
brightness, but it does it sometimes now even though i've got it
automatically starting on full brightness on AC power and on battery) it
fails to use the display at all when ubuntu starts up. The bios displays
fine as does windows, and hardy had no such problems, and intrepid gets
right to the point where point where its startup screen bar fills up
before the screen goes dead, if it's going to go dead.
When the screen is dead, it makes all the right login sounds when i
press the right keys and shuts down alright (though in a separate, less
annoying bug, the power button doesn't do anything whatever setting
power manager has) even turning the display back on to show me ubuntu's
nice orange bar unfilling.
so... release 8.10, I'm guessing it's an x window problem, but could
someone please give this a bit of thought and help me report this
properly?
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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[Intrepid] Fails to detect laptop flatpanel screen (Intel 845 graphics, Dell
Inspiron 1100)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316064
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