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gnome-desktop3 package

  1. Bug #651731
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 651731

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David Gibson (dwg) wrote : Re: regression: Monitor label has garbage characters in gnome-display-properties

Ok. I don't have a /usr/share/hwdata/pnp.ids, but I do have a /usr/share/libgnome-desktop/pnp.ids, which seems to contain the data you describe.

Removing one of the entries seems to do the trick: as soon as I removed the "IBM France" entry, the monitor showed up in the control panel as "IBM Brasil 20"". Something I didn't mentioned earlier is that while a string of garbage was the most common symptom before, a few garbage characters then "France" was also quite common which makes sense now I know the data is coming from this list.

Nonetheless looks like there is a bug where multiple matching entries in the table causes the string to be mangled.