I read again your original description and wonder why I talk about a
"ghost" screen :) You have a real screen on the laptop of course. I am
just mixing up with other bug reports where there is only one real
screen.

The problem is that with both screens enabled and in the default "clone"
mode, the reported screen dimensions from the X server to the
applications is the ones from the laptop screen and not the full virtual
size reported by xrandr. Maybe the application (in this case gnome) uses
the wrong method to probe for screen dimensions.

Can you please run xdpyinfo before and after the --off command and
attach the output? e.g xdpyinfo > xdpyinfo-before.txt

I guess the ati driver is doing the right thing, but the X server or
applications are not, so I reassign to xorg again. Ubuntu would also
need a tool to correctly configure using xrandr1.2, and that's being
worked on.

** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: xserver-xorg-video-ati => xorg

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