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[RobinJ <broederjacobs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

(Not sure if I chose the right package for this bug.)

My dads laptop (Dell Latitude D630) is usually in a docking station, wich is connected to a big external monitor, while his laptop's screen is shut.
I booted the 11.10 daily live cd (7th of October, 2011) on my dads laptop (laptop screen shut, external monitor connected via dock) and got a BusyBox...
I tried again, this time with the laptop screen opened as well (still connected to the external monitor through the dock). I got a mirrored screen, the chosen resolution wasn't right for either of the monitors. I disabled the laptop's screen using gnome-control-center and set the resolution right for the external monitor. I opened the Unity Dash and... everything flickered and went black.
I tried again, once more with the laptop in the dock, connected with the external monitor, and the laptop's own screen shut. I got the wallpaper, I heard the login sound, then the last 2 seconds of the login sound kept repeating. None of the hardware connected to the dock (appart from the screen) seemed to work. I opened the laptop's screen, wich was empty, and tried to move the cursor using the trackpad, wich worked. However, no keyboard shutcuts worked, on neither of the keyboards, not even CTRL+ALT+F1.
I held the power button once more to shut down the laptop, took the laptop out of the docking station, and booted the CD once more... It worked perfectly! It's blazing fast, stable, compiz works (wich it didn't with 11.04), ...
The problem seems to  be the second screen (or the driver? nouveau in this case). I'm not sure what this laptop's graphics card is, I only know  it's an NVidia Quadro NVS (I think 135M).
This is a really annoying problem as many people like to connect an external monitor (eventually through a dock station).

** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: monitor nouveau nvidia oneiric screen x11 xorg

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  Multiple monitors - Strange crashes

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