gnome-display-manager doesn't allow manual refresh rate entry

[biebel]

Ubuntu 8.10 & 9.04

9.04: gnome-control-center: Installed: 1:2.26.0-0ubuntu3

This is more of a feature request than a bug report.

gnome-display-properties should allow to enter the refresh rate manually.

My secondary monitor is a beamer that does not get detected (fully)

Relevant xrandr output:
DVI-1 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
   1360x768 59.8
   1152x864 60.0
   1024x768 60.0
   800x600 60.3
   640x480 59.9

I know the native resolution of the beamer is 1024*768 at a refresh rate of 85hz, but when I activate the monitor in gnome-display-properties I can only choose the resolutions and refresh rates shown by xrandr.

The only way around manually defining resolutions and refresh rates in xorg.conf I have found is by adding the right mode using xrandr commands in a script.
#!/bin/sh
xrandr --newmode "1024x768@85" 94.5 1024 1072 1168 1376 768 769 772 808 +hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode DVI-1 1024x768@85
xrandr --output DVI-1 --right-of DVI-0 --mode 1024x768@85

This works perfectly, but I think, if it's easy to implement, the option should be there in gnome-display-properties.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.