FINALLY, after a year of suffering with vesa and no video playback, happened upon a simple workaround to this problem which was originally described for AE100 and works for me on AE700. The workaround is described here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=536344
I used "gtf 1280 720 60" to generate a modeline and included it in xorg.conf, explicitly setting the resolution. Here is the totality of my xorg.conf: Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Configured Monitor" Modeline "1280x720_60.00" 74.48 1280 1336 1472 1664 720 721 724 746 -HSync +Vsync EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Monitor "Configured Monitor" SubSection "Display" Modes "1280x720_60.00" EndSubSection Device "Configured Video Device" EndSection I also added the suggested xrandr command in .xinitrc. -- [i945] X failure with eee box combined with Panasonic LCD projector https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/312714 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