I have a dell mini 9. It should be very similar CPU (if not the same) as the N10. I updated it today. Following that, I plug in an external monitor (max res 1280x1024) through a VGA cable. I was able to run Unity in these configuration:
laptop: 1024x600 external monitor: 800x600: no major issue to report. Unity works well. laptop: 1024x600 external monitor: 832x624: no major issue to report. Unity works well. laptop: 1024x600 external monitor: 1024x768: starting to see some empty regions on the external monitor (black). Probably the limited video memory of the dell mini 9 is kicking in... laptop: 1024x600 external monitor: 1152x864: unusable My dell mini 9 system only has 1 GigaByte of RAM so it is possible that past a certain resolution, the system can't handle an external monitor correctly. It is also likely that the driver doesn't provide much help either... However, I couldn't reproduce the bug as reported here. From the picture of the bug, it looks like the system is trying to drive an HD monitor; probably one with an even higher resolution than my external monitor. So, I wonder if the system has enough RAM for that. Even if it does, we can't be certain how that RAM it is allocated (between the GPU and the CPU). - Is it possible to know the details of that particular system (in the picture): how much RAM does it has? - What is the resolution of the external monitor? - Is it possible to lower the external monitor resolution when setting up a multi-monitor configuration? - Does the problem shown in the picture still occurs when the external monitor resolution is at its lowest? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830949 Title: [Intel N10 Graphics] Plugging in external monitor to VGA port makes both displays corrupted with thick slanted lines To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/830949/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
