Both Daniel's problem and mine are a manifestation of the xorg bug here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17292
It appears to be a quirk affecting a particular model of Sony Vaio laptop that has the Intel Cantiga integrated graphics. >From this bug report and the upstream one, it seems that at least the >following models of Sony laptop are affected * VGN-SR140D * VGN-SR19XN * VGN-SR11M As far as I can see these are simply international variants of exactly the same model of laptop. -- X fails to start with intel 4500MHD GMA https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/268615 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