Geir - That's it. I ran both tests that you sugggested, and saw both indicators. And shutting down the RandR service did, indeed, stop the blinking - the display worked well.
I think I can confirm that my circumstances sound like bug 278471, though with the difference that I'm seeing blanking, not artifacts. -- external monitor blanks on 10 second cycle https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317144 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