Looking at your dmesg anyway, this pops out as interesting: [ 135.356761] [drm] GMBUS timed out, falling back to bit banging on pin 2 [i915 gmbus vga]
Can you do a fresh boot and look at dmesg before and then after reproducing the problem. Does the printing of this line correlate to the issue occurring? If so, that's a strong clue... ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu Oneiric) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/754799 Title: [arrandale] external VGA output doesn't output anything (i686) -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs