Comment 7 for bug 454388

I would like to point out that this we be less an issue if Ubuntu simply had a dialog to simply manually set a resolution! Every operating system I know can do this. If not EDID data can be retrieved (like with old monitors, or monitors hooked up via BNC connectors, or monitors behind a KVM switch, but I also know some monitors that have defunct DDC, so no EDID either) Ubuntu suddenly becomes extremely user-unfriendly and archaic, you have to craft your own xorg.conf and compile modelines again (yuck!!).

Devels, *please* give us a simple slider in the monitor dialog to just simply set resolution and vertical frequency by hand. If you don't want to bother a newbie user with that, you could hide it behind a checkbox "advanced settings".

I have reported this as a bug:
bug 685516

http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/685516