xorg.conf deleted during upgrade; native resolution no longer works
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xorg (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
I just upgraded a desktop system from 13.10 to 14.04, and to my horror found that the monitor's native resolution was no longer supported: the best setting offered was 1024×768 or somesuch.
Turns out the upgrade deleted xorg.conf. There were two backups: one with the date as a suffix (.01052014) and one with just ".backup" as a suffix. The one with the date didn't look like what I had before, so I restored xorg.conf from xorg.conf.backup instead.
Now I think I'm back in the resolution I had before (after going to the Display settings), but there's something wrong. The resolution isn't quite the native one so many pixels are fuzzy, causing my eyes to ache, and the font inside menus looks a few sizes too small. It's hard to read and leaves a lot of horizontal space in the menus unused. It also makes kerning look irregular.
The monitor is an Iiyama ProLite E2407HDSV. It's supposed to do 1920×1080, but the best I can get working properly in the Display settings is 1680×1050. The next step up, 1920×1080, won't show the entire screen — large swathes of the desktop fall outside the physical display.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelMo
.proc.driver.
.proc.driver.
.proc.driver.
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 304.117 Tue Nov 26 21:36:39 PST 2013
GCC version: gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)
.tmp.unity.
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,composite
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnred
CompositorUnred
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu May 1 21:47:44 2014
DistUpgraded: 2014-05-01 21:23:35,494 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: trusty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
nvidia-
nvidia-
ExtraDebuggingI
GraphicsCard:
NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] [10de:0a65] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: CardExpert Technology Device [10b0:1401]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-02-17 (1168 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-05-01 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 06/17/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 2102
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: M4A79XTD EVO
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev X.0X
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11+
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.52-1
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
xserver.bootTime: Thu May 1 21:45:41 2014
xserver.configfile: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
xserver.errors:
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
xserver.version: 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2
Also, I don't know if these are related, but window menus now appear not only at the top of the screen or in the window's title bar (depending on the new configuration setting in 14.04), but also in the classic pre-Unity location: right below the window's title bar.