I don't think it's related. I don't see any reports of X crashing here,
just inability to use external displays. Furthermore, the bug referenced
in that changelog entry was introduced in the 295 timeframe and this bug
is reported in 280.
The issue described here also doesn't seem to exactly match the issue
described on the ubuntuforums.org and forums.nvidia.com links: here it
sounds like neither external display is working, and on the forum posts
it sounds like the control panel is freezing when enabling two external
monitors simultaneously.
The latter is a known bug in the control panel which was fixed in the
290 timeframe. The former sounds like a distinct issue to me, but maybe
I've misunderstood the report. It would be good to clarify with the
original reporter.
For the control panel bug, you don't want to do a full driver update for
that bug, you can just patch the control panel:
--- a/src/gtk+-2.x/ctkdisplayconfig-utils.c
+++ b/src/gtk+-2.x/ctkdisplayconfig-utils.c
@@ -1111,8 +1111,8 @@
if (!screen->displays) {
screen->displays = display;
} else {
- nvDisplayPtr last = screen->displays;
- while (last) {
+ nvDisplayPtr last;
+ for (last = screen->displays; last; last = last->next_in_screen) {
if (!last->next_in_screen) {
last->next_in_screen = display;
break;
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[Latitude E6510 / Thinkpad W510/T510] External Video inoperative with
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