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  1. Bug #1196239
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 1196239

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote : Re: Cannot change laptop display resolution

Updated today and verified nothing was fixed.

Speaking to RAOF, he pointed out that this is kind of an intentional feature and not a bug. Because laptop displays typically only support one resolution. The support for other resolutions under legacy X was apparently faked through hardware scaling etc. Not as a native display mode.

You can see the native display modes supported here:

$ cat /sys/class/drm/card0-LVDS-1/modes
1366x768

As such, this bug is a feature request. Not so much a bug.