Bug#420292: xserver-xorg-video-intel: gnome-screensaver blanks screen and does not display dialog after upgrade to 2.0.0-1

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

David Härdeman wrote:
> I have exactly the same problem (that the driver thinks something is
> connected to VGA output on my laptop and gnome-screensaver decides to
> show its dialogue on the VGA screen).

Actually, the reason is that gnome-screensaver is currently buggy when 2
outputs are enabled. It seems to not display the dialogue anywhere,
neither on the first nor on the second output. See #420339.
Apart from that, your workaround is correct (xrandr --output VGA --off
should even be enough).

Brice