Daniel, The behavior is essentially the same with the mainline kernel you linked to. The only difference is that the unity app bar on the left (I'm not sure what it's called) appears to be drawn from the (0,0) coordinate of the screen even after manually fixing the display layout with xrandr, which I do via the following alias:
alias dock='xset r rate 200 ; xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode 1920x1080 --rotate right --pos 1280x0 --output LVDS1 --pos 0x300 ' so, I can't see the top half of the unity app bar with the mainline kernel, and otherwise the display is still garbeled in the same way right after docking. Running that dock alias *does* fix things after docking with the Ubuntu (non-mainline?) kernel, though, so I've been docking, hitting win-5 (which corresponds to a terminal) and blindly typing 'dock' to get things back to normal. Just to be sure I did the right thing, here's uname -a after installing the mainline kernel and rebooting: $ uname -a Linux creswick 2.6.39-020639rc3-generic #201104120912 SMP Tue Apr 12 09:16:19 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/814721 Title: [Intel i915] Docking with external monitor often corrupts screen To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/814721/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
