Comment 7 for bug 93749

I've uploaded an interim fix to my ppa:

https://launchpad.net/~kitterman/+archive/

This won't be pretty, but in my testing it at least worked.

Please test as follows if you are running Hardy:

Install from the PPA.

Run displayconfig from a konsole window - most display settings will likely be wrong.

If that goes well, then try it as kdesudo:
kdesudo displayconfig

Try changing and applying display resolution and then exit.

Run displayconfig again and see if it has more a more realistic configuration displayed.