There is a workaround for this issue which is to leave one of the monitors unplugged until after login. It's lame, but it will allow one to boot and then work within a multi-monitor setup. I get this error with Intel Video 4000 when driving two monitors via HDMI and VGA simultaneously.
More here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/226455/using-displayport-with-thinkpad- and-dockingstation-does-not-work -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1124328 Title: *ERROR* failed to set mode on [CRTC:7] Status in The Linux Kernel: Invalid Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” package in Ubuntu: Opinion Status in Fedora: Unknown Bug description: When I boot I receive this error. This is the same bug being tracked (and possibly ignored) by redhat. Please see the link for logs that others have submitted etc... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753050 I am using a Thinkpad T430s docked with DVI monitor and VGA monitor (a common configuration I would imagine). I read that there is a hardware limitation for supporting LVDS+DVI+VGA concurrently, but since the laptop is docked (and screen closed) I don't believe this explains the bug. For the record, I am using Ubuntu Release: 12.10 kernel 3.5.0-23-generic Graphics: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09) Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:21fb] Kernel driver in use: i915 Please let me know how I can be of any further help. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/1124328/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
