Hi,

More information about this issue:

- still happening on an up-to-date Natty

- Problem *does not occur* if gnome-display-properties is running at the
time

- The exact symptoms have changed a little, but still shows the same
inability to properly set the external monitor

- With gnome-display-properties running, cycling through modes with
Fn+F7 looks like this (in order):

Mode                    Internal        External
------------------------------------------------
Spanning Desktop        On              On
Clone Mode              On              Broken
Internal Only           On              Off
External Only           Off             On
Spanning (again)        On              Broken

If gnome-display-properties is running, it works properly:

Mode                    Internal        External
------------------------------------------------
Spanning Desktop        On              On
Clone Mode              On              On
Internal Only           On              Off
External Only           Off             On
Spanning (again)        On              on

This is on a projector, which doesn't support many modes, so "broken" is
basically "black".

When run on a fairly flexible external monitor, I noticed that the
resolution/refresh as reported by xrandr does not match the actual
resolution of the monitor. In the attached photo, you'll see output of
xrandr (white on black) saying the monitor is 1920x1200@60Hz, but the
monitor's status menu says it's running 1600x1200@60Hz.

The GNOME desktop believes that the monitor is 1920 pixels wide, so even
though there's a picture on the monitor, much of it is missing.

Thanks,
Eric

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  Fn+F7 cycling gives external monitor incorrect resolution on Thinkpad
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