Good news. I ran a test of the current Ubuntu 8.10 beta (Intrepid Ibex) and the results are highly promising.
the test machine was an IBM Thinkpad X60s w/2GB RAM. I downloaded the current Ubuntu 8.10 beta (Intrepid) from http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/intrepid/beta on Friday, 17 October and burned a CD with the image. I also downloaded a test video (F-18A_Active_Aeroelastic_Wing_flight_test.ogg) onto another machine, because I needed an open source format for the test to preclude having to load a bunch of codecs. I wanted to use just the default Intrepid environment. I booted the Thinkpad with the Intrepid image and copied the test video (via sftp) from the other machine. I then connected an external monitor to the Thinkpad and configured it with the default application (I think it was Screen Resolution in Preferences). I took the default desktop, which spanned both the laptop's screen and the external monitor. I restarted X (logged out and back in). Finally I double clicked on the video icon. It DID DISPLAY on the external monitor. Yeah! I shut down the laptop and rebooted it's native OS: Ubuntu 7.10, Gutsy. (I use Gutsy because of some other problems with 8.04, Hardy.) The external monitor was still connected. In this configuration, it mirrored the laptop's screen. (I checked the Administration>>Screen and Graphics and verified that that's how it was configured.) I copied the same test video to this machine and double-clicked on it. The video displayed on the Thinkpad screen but DID NOT DISPLAY on the external monitor. So there you go. This is NOT a complete test of the display functionality, but it is certainly encouraging. Thanks to everyone for all their hard work. Roy -- no video overlay on external monitor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/155157 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
