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[Todd Morgan <tubatodd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I installed Natty Beta2 this weekend on my HP laptop. I run it with an
Acer 22" external monitor. I prefer the big screen (to the left) as
primary and the laptop screen (to the right) for email and IM.

I only had to edit the ~/.config/monitors.xml to set the VGA screen to
primary to get the setup I needed. After some updates this weekend, i
can no longer get the external monitor to work with Unity. On bootup I
get both screens with the login screen on the laptop. If I choose Unity,
the external monitor freaks out like this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK5AfUzg6UA

Mean while the laptop screen has a freely moving mouse, but not much
else. If I go into Ubuntu classic mode, I get Gnome 2 and the
resolutions work just fine. When I try Unity again it freaks out.

I've tried deleting the ~/.config and restarting. That seemed to have
helped......until I restarted. The odd thing is that somehow my "left is
primary" was retained even without the monitor.xml. When the view DOES
come up it looks like this...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tubatodd/5657189985/

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/737891

Title:
  [Arrandale] gnome-display-properties unable to correctly enable
  monitors connected to VGA