gnome-display-properties mismatched RandR extension version

Bug #954739 reported by Rick Miller
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

When trying to use gnome-display-properties either through System->Preferences->Monitors or through command typed into terminal, it always displays: "Could not get screen information, RANDR extension is too old (must be at least 1.2)" in a pop-up window. When invoked from the command line, I also get the following messages in the terminal window:
"(gnome-display-properties:6825): Gtk-WARNING **: Ignoring the separator setting"

"(gnome-display-properties:6825): Gtk-WARNING **: No object called: "

I typed "xrandr -v" and get:
xrandr program version 1.3.2
Server reports RandR version 1.1

When I try apt-get install x11-xserver-utils (which is supposed to contain xrandr) it tells me it is already at the current version.

rick@deuce:~$ sudo apt-get install x11-xserver-utils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
x11-xserver-utils is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-39.86-server 2.6.32.56+drm33.22
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-39-server x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 14 01:52:07 2012
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center

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Rick Miller (gty-rick) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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