Microsoft wants you to "Get the Facts Straight"

[Derek Broughton]

Michael Haney wrote:

> A serious issue has cropped up in Ubuntu in the last two versions.
> That problem is the inability to easily select what kind of Monitor
> you are using.
> Oh, you can change the resolution just fine, but if X.org doesn't
> detect the right settings for your monitor it can lock you into a
> default setting.  The result is you're stuck with 640x480 and 800x600
> as your only options.  The minute you install a driver for your 3D
> graphics card (Nvidia, Intel, ATI, etc) suddenly you're locked at
> 640x480.  It used to be that you could choose your monitors settings
> from the display dialogue in Preferences, but that changed about
> releases back.

My experience is that _X_ doesn't lock you in.  In fact, you can usually fix 
these things with X utilities.  xrandr does the job for me.  

Which doesn't excuse the fact that the desktop environment's utilities 
aren't doing the job...
-- 
derek