Same behavior here. When pluging in the VGA cable system freezes and a hard reset is needed to recover. The same thing happened in 9.10 although if I remember correctly when I first installed 9.10 (before any updates) the VGA out worked. I upgraded to 10.04 from 9.10 using update-manager.
distro: Ubuntu 10.4 LTS codename: lucid architecture: i686 kernel: 2.6.32-22-generic-pae pc: SONY VAIO SR59XG graphics card: Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD -- System freeze when plug a VGA cable to display device https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/569857 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
