Comment 6 for bug 411295

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Jonathan Ernst (jonathan.ernst) wrote : Re: External screen resolution is not detected correctly

I spoke too fast.

I was able to do a do-release-upgrade on this netbook and reproduce the problem with another screen (once again the top resolution is not available in xrandr but detected correctly by Xorg)

$ dpkg -l xserver-xorg
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5 the X.Org X server

$ dpkg -l xserver-xorg-video-intel
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii xserver-xorg-v 2:2.8.0+git200 X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display d