With Dapper I was able to switch to the, edit xorg.conf and add Option "MonitorLatout" "LVDS,AUTO"
That worked fine for me. But with Edgy live CD I get a unusable psychodelic console -- no characters displayed as far as I can see. -- [x700] fails to infer lvds for primary connector on acer ferrari 4005 https://launchpad.net/bugs/22985 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs