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Message #124712
Re: [Bug 762855] Re: [sandybridge-m-gt2+] Display on external monitor (vga) is black on 13" MacBook Pro 8, 1 (x86_64)
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 06:13:11AM -0000, Jeff Olson wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 761065 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/761065
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> I just tried the kernel AceLan Kao posted in comment #13 and no luck.
> Connecting an external monitor causes a system lockup on my system. I
> went back to the 2.6.39 kernel in kernel-ppa and everything works
> better, it seems.
Ah, bummer Jeff.
If you have some time, you could do your own bisection search to figure
out which patch from 2.6.39 is needed for your system. For some
paint-by-numbers directions on doing this see:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBisection
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