Today I've tried with the last intrepid alpha6 livecd, the problem is steel here.
Making some more investigation seem to be related to the failure on the display detection. with the external monitor attached the xresprobe command output: id: SDM-HS95 res: 1280x1024 1280x960 1024x768 832x624 800x600 720x400 640x480 freq: 28-81 48-75 disptype: lcd/lvds whitout this monitor attached the output is: id: res: freq: disptype: lcd/lvds executing the get-edid | parse-edid command I received this error parse-edid: parse-edid version 1.4.1 parse-edid: IO error reading EDID here a portion of the $ sudo lspci -vvnn command output: .... 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device [8086:3582] (rev 02) Subsystem: Fujitsu Siemens Computers Device [1734:1033] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Region 1: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] Region 2: I/O ports at 1800 [size=8] Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Kernel modules: intelfb 00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device [8086:3582] (rev 02) Subsystem: Fujitsu Siemens Computers Device [1734:1033] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Region 0: Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Region 1: Memory at e0080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- .... -- Xorg won't start on a laptop with i810 (no valid mode) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269765 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs