Intrepid: Removing displayconfig-gtk without a replacement is bad!!!

[Sam Williams]

Intrepid is making the move to remove displayconfig-gtk from the list of available applications. Doing so without providing another method of manually configuring your display is ridiculous. I know that the perception of xorg 7.4-2 is that everything is there that you need to configure X, but that is incorrect. I have a machine at home currently that is running an nvidia card. Prior to my move to Intrepid, compiz effects worked fine at a resolution of 1280x1024. Now that I have Intrepid installed the DKMS system fails to properly build the nvidia drivers which renders the machine useless for X when it is reboot.

Making matters worse is the fact that when I do get X to come back there is now no tool like displayconfig-gtk to get my X configured properly. See I have an older monitor attached to this system and when its polled will not identify itself so X naturally assumes lowest common denominator resolution of 800x600! This is riduclous.

I really can't understand why Ubuntu has to keep breaking X with each new release of the OS. Ubuntu needs to work as seemlessly on Intrepid as it did for Hardy and currently it does not. Since the processing of xorg.conf has changed it is important to have a tool that will manually allow you to configure the display.

[Lilian ROBERT (lilian-robert)]

Hi, I confirm that displayconfig-gtk is not available in Intrepid. I have a resolution problem and I don't know what to do to correct it. An idea ?

Thank you

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

An explanation for the dropping of this package is available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/DisplayConfigGtk.

We are no longer accepting bug reports for this tool, but thank you for your interest. Displayconfig-gtk is in process of being replaced by x-kit. Please see https://edge.launchpad.net/x-kit if you would like to assist with this effort.