Display not configured with proper resolutions on install
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| xorg (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: xserver-xorg
This is a general bug that effects all version of Ubuntu.
When Ubuntu is installed, it will attempt to auto-detect the resolution and driver for the video card present in the system. In my experience, it rarely picks it correctly. A fix for this issue would be to enable the user to select a driver and choose the resolution.
This could be implemented with a "advanced" configuration option during install with a warning of possibly setting it up incorrectly. This would be essentially the same as running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, but with reduced options (keyboard&mouse and monitor refresh ignored). For the nvidia/ati cards we have the fgrlx and nv options, and several others for the other setups.
If a user decides to set it up post-install, they can run this configuration wizard. To ensure that they pick the correct one, when clicking apply, it will "test" the new configuration file by adding a check script to startup temporarily, restarting the xserver, and having a dialogue box appear after login asking if it displays correctly. Giving it a 30 second time-out would make sure that if it doesn't display correctly, it would revert to original configuration file, and restart xserver, upon logging back in, would announce that configuration was bad.
| Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote | #1 |
| Ahmed Osman (ashex) wrote | #2 |
| Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote | #3 |
Hi Ahmed,
Thanks for reporting this bug. As you mention, this is a very common bug that many, many people run into (see bug #3731, which is the master bug report for this issue.)
One of the fixes we're working on is basically what you've described - a GUI xorg configuration tool. This will be available from the System menu, and will also pop up post-install if the installer produced an invalid xorg.conf. You can see a preview of this latter functionality here: http://
If you'd be interested in helping in testing this new functionality, it would be valuable. You would need to install Gutsy and then install the displayconfig-gtk package. Any problems you find (or ideas for improvement) can then be reported to the displayconfig-gtk package in launchpad.