>From my original bug report (see above): "In Kubuntu 8.04, it was possible to hard-set/override the monitor selection via System Settings -> Display. Under Kubuntu 8.10RC, this setting is no longer present (same goes for Ubuntu 8.10RC, by the way). Apparently, there is no way to set what monitor you are using."
I *am* talking about "System settings" -> "General" -> "Display" (as far as Kubuntu is concerned - as I said, Ubuntu 8.10 has the same problem). In Kubuntu 8.04, this same utility was still called "Monitor & Display" and had a "Hardware" tab in which you could manually select the monitor you have. In 8.10 and 9.04, this option has been removed and as far as I can see nothing has been provided to replace it. This means that in these versions, the user does not have the option to override the *definition* of the monitor. If the system recognises my monitor as "800x600" (or does not recognise it at all), "800x600" is all I get - contrary to 8.04, I cannot override this and tell the system "but my monitor REALLY *can* do 1600x1200!" The only way to do so is to manually edit xorg.conf, which is something I did not have to do in *years* with any distribution - and also something which cannot be expected of a novice user who happens to have an older monitor or is using a KVM-switch that fails to propagate the DDC signals properly. The latter is precisely what I have at home and at work: With some KVM, autodetection works, with others, it does not - and if it does not, neither Kubuntu (8.10 and 9.04) nor Ubuntu 8.10 (have not tested 9.04 yet) offer me the option to manually define my monitor using a proper GUI. Other systems (tested: Opensuse 11, Kubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 8.04) do. In my eyes, this is a usability regression in comparison with 8.04 and therefore a bug. ** Summary changed: - 8.10: Application to override monitor selection missing + 8.10/9.04: Application to override monitor selection missing -- 8.10/9.04: Application to override monitor selection missing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289422 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
