Bug#542069: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Second screen (TMDS-1) not functioning after recent update to unstable.

[Thomas Vaughan <tevaughan@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Carl Worth<cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
>
> Beyond replicating the originally working software environment as well
> as possible, you can explore whether there's some other issue that
> could have affected things. For example, is it possible to switch
> cables from a working to a non-working monitor?

Thanks for all of the kind responses.  :^)

I did indeed figure out the problem by this method just before I
received your message.  Apparently, I had a connector that was seated
well enough to show video (at least at the linux console) but not well
enough to do the EDID communication needed by the X server to enable the
output.

Now my only remaining head-scratcher is why, after starting the X
server, I have to CTRL-ALT-F1 and then ALT-F7 back in order to get my
TMDS-1 output fully accelerated for window dragging, etc.

-- 
Thomas E. Vaughan

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