On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Przemysław Kulczycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm also affected by this bug. > I'm using Ubuntu for over 3 years, and I've survived many difficulties with > configuration, but now I must say that the new Xorg resolution autodetection > simply sucks! > It can't detect correct resolution settings on both my laptop (ati, 8.04) and > pc (nvidia, 8.10), using both open and closed driver. I always have to > configure xorg.conf by hand because that's the only option to get the best > results. > Not having any possibility to manually choose graphics card and monitor in > GUI is a serious limitation and a regression from previous versions. > Yes, I know that power users like me can type in whole xorg.conf by hand, but > that's painful and takes much more time than clicking in the gui and choosing > all the stuff manually. > I miss the old tools from breezy-feisty era. > > ** Tags added: display resolution xrandr > > ** Also affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) > Importance: Undecided > Status: New > > ** Summary changed: > > - Screen Resolution Limitations > + can't configure display resolution (monitor, graphics card) manually in gui > > -- > can't configure display resolution (monitor, graphics card) manually in gui > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240916 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. >
Kubuntu 8.04 still has the feature to select a monitor type in the screen resolution tool. I've been told you can take the config file for X.org from this version or a previous version of Ubuntu and overwrite the one used in 8.10 to correct the problem. What would really fix it is if the option to manually change these settings in the screen resolution GUI were put back in. Relying totally on autodetection was a bad decision, its not that X.org is ready, its that now all hardware types follow the rules and then there is the closed source drivers which are a part of that chain. Someone needs to bring this up to the powers that be in the community who make the decisions as to what goes into each new version of Ubuntu and its variants (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc) and let them know this needs to be fixed. -- Michael "TheZorch" Haney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Your Computer from the Tyranny of Microsoft www.ubuntu.com -- can't configure display resolution (monitor, graphics card) manually in gui https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240916 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs