Comment 4 for bug 240916

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Przemysław Kulczycki
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> I'm also affected by this bug.
> I'm using Ubuntu for over 3 years, and I've survived many difficulties with configuration, but now I must say that the new Xorg resolution autodetection simply sucks!
> It can't detect correct resolution settings on both my laptop (ati, 8.04) and pc (nvidia, 8.10), using both open and closed driver. I always have to configure xorg.conf by hand because that's the only option to get the best results.
> Not having any possibility to manually choose graphics card and monitor in GUI is a serious limitation and a regression from previous versions.
> Yes, I know that power users like me can type in whole xorg.conf by hand, but that's painful and takes much more time than clicking in the gui and choosing all the stuff manually.
> I miss the old tools from breezy-feisty era.
>
> ** Tags added: display resolution xrandr
>
> ** Also affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - Screen Resolution Limitations
> + can't configure display resolution (monitor, graphics card) manually in gui
>
> --
> can't configure display resolution (monitor, graphics card) manually in gui
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240916
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Kubuntu 8.04 still has the feature to select a monitor type in the
screen resolution tool. I've been told you can take the config file
for X.org from this version or a previous version of Ubuntu and
overwrite the one used in 8.10 to correct the problem. What would
really fix it is if the option to manually change these settings in
the screen resolution GUI were put back in. Relying totally on
autodetection was a bad decision, its not that X.org is ready, its
that now all hardware types follow the rules and then there is the
closed source drivers which are a part of that chain. Someone needs
to bring this up to the powers that be in the community who make the
decisions as to what goes into each new version of Ubuntu and its
variants (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc) and let them know this needs to be
fixed.

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Michael "TheZorch" Haney
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