Comment 25 for bug 296142

I have just tried booting the Ubuntu 9.04 Beta CD (as a live CD) on this Averatec 3280 laptop. There is a significant improvement in the situation, but it is not quite perfect. What happens is that a large range of resolutions, above and below the optimum resolution of 1024x768 for the LCD display on this laptop. Initially the largest resolution is displayed, which has a problem: the display only shows the 1024x768 upper-left corner of this virtual display. Under Gnome, this is not a disaster, since the screen resolution can be set to 1024x768 from the System menu.

However this would be a serious problem under distros using KDE, such as Kubuntu or Knoppix, since the panel is at the bottom of the screen, and would disappear. I have experienced that problem with the latest Knoppix, in fact.

Also, I have not checked to see if something can be done about this at boot time, or when actually installing. And I have not yet checked to see what I can do by editing xorg.conf, for 9.04 Beta.

Incidentally, there are some other displays which I've reported similar bugs about, which show up with a maximum 600x800 resolution - erring the other way - on a 1024x768 display.