Comment 48 for bug 408588

Okay...I found a solution, but not a fix: if I leave the monitor off during boot and turn it on later, then I get the correct monitor information and can use the higher resolutions. Somewhere there is a conflict with the graphics controller and the EDID of the monitor...whether it's a software or hardware bug is beyond me, although I recently installed XP on that system (for someone else who doesn't stand a chance with Ubuntu), and don't have any problems...so I must assume that it is an Ubuntu software driver bug.