[has patch] Monitor and Display module won't load correctly in Hungarian install

[Phonteus Nevolius]

I have had the following problem for a while, in Dapper and now in Edgy too: my system is installed in Hungarian language, and when I go into System settings/Monitor and Display, it gives me an error message, and the actual content of it just doesn't show up. The error message says something like this:
- An error occurred during your last KDE upgrade leaving an orphaned control module
- You have old third-party modules lying around.

I only realized that the problem somehow has to do with the Hungarian setup when I used the Edgy RC version which was in English. There, the display module came up without problems. Later I installed Edgy in English, again, no problems.

I might not remember well but I think I didn't have this issue in Hungarian Breezy.

[Simon Edwards (simon-simonzone)]

With your computer set to hungarion, open up a console and run:

    displayconfig

And report any error messages that you see, and we should be able to get this quickly fixed.

[Phonteus Nevolius (phontanka)]

Thank you for your reply. The output of displayconfig was:

phontanka@kubuntu:~$ displayconfig
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
  Major opcode: 144
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
  Major opcode: 144
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/displayconfig", line 1707, in ?
    displayapp = DisplayApp()
  File "/usr/bin/displayconfig", line 478, in __init__
    self._loadConfig()
  File "/usr/bin/displayconfig", line 1029, in _loadConfig
    self.targetgamma = self.availabletargetgammas.index(t)
ValueError: list.index(x): x not in list
phontanka@kubuntu:~$

[Ákos Mattiassich (mattiassicha)]

Here I've found a solution:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=285266&page=2

"/usr/bin/displayconfig", line 431 sould be changed to this :
self.availabletargetgammas = [unicode(('1.4')),unicode(('1.6')),unicode(('1.8')),unicode(('2.0')),unicode(('2.2')),unicode(('2.4'))]

[Phonteus Nevolius (phontanka)]

This worked, thank you very much. The problem is solved. It would be nice to
see this implemented by default in Kubuntu 7.04.

[towsonu2003 (towsonu2003)]

has patch: meaning this post https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/kde-systemsettings/+bug/70314/comments/3

It's not really a patch, but it almost is according to the reporter :) Now we need someone to apply it to the said file [and most probably inform the upstream].