Comment 9 for bug 240916

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:
> reading again the description it could be a feature request for the
> capplet, the screen detection should be just working in xorg though and
> there is no plan to add monitor configuration to this capplet
>

No monitor configuration options in the genome screen resolution
capplet is a serious limitation and is poor design. Users who
encounter this problem face a long and frustrating process of trying
to fix Xorg's inability to properly detect the video modes their
hardware can support. This is an option that should never have been
removed and should remain a part of the capplet in all future versions
in the event Xorg fails to properly detect video settings. This is a
common sense option that most users would expect to find. The lack of
this option in the current versions of Ubuntu has forced many new
users to abandon the operating system because there is no simple
solution to fix the screen resolution issue.

The addition of this option to the screen resolution capplet must be
regarded as "Critical".

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Michael "TheZorch" Haney
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