In Karmic you are using KMS. With KMS the names of the outputs have changed. VGA is now VGA1 and LVDS is now LVDS1. These are the output names you have to use in xrandr commands. So, most likely, xrandr --output VGA1 --right-of LVDS1 --auto will do something now. Please let us know if that solves the problem.
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- xrandr unable to arrange monitors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/397769 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