I am experiencing the same behavior. To this excellent documentation I will only be able to add the observation that the system "pause" happens when running xrandr as well, and the proposed fix does not work for me on Kubuntu 10.10, as I am experiencing another, catastrophic bug using the binary driver (the whole video system crashes to blank screens after an indeterminate amount of time, requiring a reboot to clear. Possibly related to a few other bugs being reported re: Qt and the binary driver).
In short, as of right now there is no good way to attach an external monitor on my system (Macbook Pro 13", 7,1). I am following this bug and will be happy to test proposed solutions. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/681555 Title: External monitor not recognized with Nvidia 320M using a mini display-port to VGA Apple adapter -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
