Removed Feature Impact Quality of Ubuntu

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> It was decided to let X.org auto-detect video hardware starting with
> Ubuntu 7.10.  Unfortunately, the auto-detection procedure does not
> always work correctly.  Some monitors are not Plug & Play, which is
> needed for this to work properly.  The resulting problem that occurs
> is one which I have had and struggled with for some time, which
> eventually forced me to make a switch to different Linux distribution
> just to correct the issue.  Getting Ubuntu to detect the correct video
> card and getting the video card to work is not the problem.  Detection
> of the monitor hardware and no longer being able to manually change
> those settings is what is the problem.

http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution -- in particular, see 4.2


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