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[Liam Mitchell <mitchell.liam@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xorg

Connecting external monitor then opening dispay preferences causes
lockup when desktop effects are enabled. Once frozen, hard restart was
needed.

Can replicate and workaround is to disable desktop effects before
opening display preferences.

I understand that intel GM45 graphics cards have a limit on total screen
size (2048x2048 I think). To use screen sizes larger than the limit,
compiz needs to be disabled.

It looks like the crash is caused by the display manager trying to
automatically configure and display this external monitor (creating
total screen size over limit) without disabling compiz first.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 15 10:43:15 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard Presario V5000 (RD593PA#ABG)
Package: xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=77ce4864-8958-4920-b24a-774217ef7ffc ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
dmi.bios.date: 09/07/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.24
dmi.board.name: 30A8
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 56.48
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.24:bd09/07/2007:svnHewlett-Packard:pnPresarioV5000(RD593PA#ABG):pvrF.24:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn30A8:rvr56.48:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Presario V5000 (RD593PA#ABG)
dmi.product.version: F.24
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro:             Ubuntu
 architecture:       i686kernel:             2.6.31-14-generic

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386

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[karmic] external monitor - display properties cause crash on intel GM45 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482814
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