In my case the root cause of this issue was corrupted firmware rather than problems with XRandR (X11-xserver-utils). The machine in question had been running lm sensors 3.3.2 which was discovered to potentially cause firmware corruption in Sept 2013.
The issue was immediately resolved following a re-flash of the BIOS on the T60 in question. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173492 Title: XRandR cannot set "scaling mode" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/x11-xserver-utils/+bug/1173492/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
