Regarding natty, I am embarassed to admit I was fooled by a known bug that caused System -> About Ubuntu to say I was using natty. In fact, my computer failed to boot from the USB stick and ran maverick from the hard drive.
Regarding maverick, I have been using PPA xorg-edgers since Jan. 15 as suggested to me in #681054. The symptoms persisted, but - following another suggestion in that report - I made them disappear by turning off the extra monitor that the system had dreamed up. In the GRUB menu.lst file, the kernel line now reads kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-25-generic root=UUID=... ro quiet splash video=VGA-1:d I think this report should be labeled to indicate that the problem is one of wrongly thinking that there is one extra monitor. Back to natty. I ran the Jan. 12 version from a live CD, so I did not have to login. When I tried to switch the user, I got a login prompt. So far so good. However, System -> Preferences -> Monitors shows that the system detects two monitors. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/606987 Title: [i915GM] login prompt hidden on Novalite PX20: extra monitor wrongly found -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
