erratic and almost entirely broken with Intel card in Hardy

[John Leach]

hi,

the displayconfig-gtk tool just doesn't work right at all on my Lenovo Thinkpad R61 with the latest Hardy updates. Unfortunately I've not tried it before so don't know how well it worked previously.

It lists 3 screens, two entries for Screen 1, and one for Screen 2 (my external monitor). The model names and resolutions are all wrong. The graphics card list show two cards. The first one as "none" and the second one as "vesa". Changing any of these and applying creates a config that prevents X from starting up (goes into the rescue mode thing).

I've attached some output from lshw and xrandr. I'm currently running the laptop with an external monitor (with the internal one disabled). This config was achieved with the xrandr cmdline tool.

This machine has a Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 graphics card.

ii displayconfig-gtk 0.3.7

John.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

For -intel especially, displayconfig-gtk doesn't work very well. The new Screen Resolution applet should be much better (although see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config for remaining manual configuration steps required.)

Also, displayconfig-gtk is being deprecated - see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/DisplayConfigGtk for details.)