@Bryce You need to see this from a users point of view: if Ubuntu 8.04 is not able to detect the correct/desired resolution or even not let the user set one (from System->Settings...), this may well be a reason to switch to another distro or even back to Win***. As such, "sufficiently reliable" is not enough. This may be a problem of the developers at x.org and not of the Ubuntu maintainers, but until X autodetection detects at least 99,9% of the monitors that win*** does, we have to live with ugly hacks and workarounds. But now for the practically implementable ideas: Keep the old dpkg-reconfigure scripts/hacks as an alternate way. 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' in hardy should then ask something like "How do you want your monitor to be detected? 1.) Autodetected by X server 2.) Autodetected by legacy script 3.) manually". 2.) would be the same as the old dpkg-reconfigure stuff with no questions asked, and 3.) the same with the well-known questions from feisty/gutsy. You could make this question low priority, so only those people who know what they're doing will ever get to see this question. And upgrading from gutsy should of course leave a possibly working xorg.conf in place instead of overwriting.
-- There is no user interactive menu method to configure xorg.conf from a shell https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207409 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
