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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #1157678
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 1157678

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: unplugging an external monitor from laptop results in corrupted screen. Logging out fixes it.

$ uname -a
Linux virgil 3.8.0-16-generic #26~lp1157678v20130402 SMP Tue Apr 2 12:55:49
CDT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I'm sorry to report that this doesn't fix the problem for me. I still usually see corruption as in the attached photo on one or the other of the outputs when I change the monitor configuration. sometimes, cycling through the configs clears it; other times it does not.