It's actually not as simple as that; resolutions are not just pluggable
numbers, but are actually calculated from 'modelines' which describe the
physical CRT or LCD drawing behaviors and refresh cycle rates which are
fairly specific to a given piece of hardware.
So, you can't take a given 1280x800 modeline for a Sony CRT monitor and
reuse it unchanged on a BENQ LCD flatscreen or a Fujitsu laptop; it's
likely this would just result in a scrambled screen most of the time.
The only modelines which are *guaranteed* to work on any monitor are the
ones specified by the VESA standard. Those are the modelines
corresponding to 1024x768, 800x600, and 640x480 - the "poor resolution
options" that you're being presented with. Ideally VESA would put out
newer standards, however even if they did that wouldn't solve it for all
the hw already out there.
One idea we've been pursuing to better address the case of EDID failures
is to allow for saving and loading EDID blobs into the kernel. Then,
you could either generate an EDID yourself through some sort of tool
(e.g. perhaps deriving it from your monitor's setup cd), or save it off
the monitor (or get it from someone with the same monitor), and then the
system can load it at boot. This is already adequately covered by
another bug report and the work is in progress (but no ETA on when it'll
be available in the distro.)
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Status: Expired => Won't Fix
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Monitor prefs: poor resolution options when EDID fails
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