After a quick search of BugZilla it seems that this is a known issue (bug 12904) and there is a work-around - add the following to the boot command line:
acpi_osi="!Windows 2006" I've added a link to this page on the BugZilla bug. Thanks one and all for the support on this so far - hopefully there will be a proper fix in time for 9.10 from upstream :-) -- [iGM45] Connecting external monitor causes system to lock up. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319717 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

