[CoLoCo] 8.10 Screen Resolution?

[Michael Haney]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:01 AM,  <telecon at infosyndicate.net> wrote:
> I guess I don't understand what you are missing, having not played with the
> older resolution tool.
>
> I do find that I can do everything I need to do with the current tool, but I'm
> not running anything unusual.
>
> Actually things have improved a bit.  I used to have to run the i8xx bios
> modifier on startup to get the right resolution, now it just happens.
>
> What settings can't be changed with the newer tool?
>

The screen resolution tool in Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 let you change the
screen resolution only and don't have options to change what type of
monitor you are using which tells X.org what graphics options to make
available (ie; 1024x768 and higher resolutions and different refresh
rates).  Some hardware doesn't play nice with X.org and it defaults to
a safe 640x480 with no ability to go higher or change the monitor type
so you can change your screen resolution to one that's higher.  7.10
is the last version of Ubuntu with this functionality in the screen
resolution tool.  Kubuntu 8.04 is the last version of that distro
which has that functionality also.  Its an mistake that needs to be
corrected, removing this feature should never have been allowed to
happen because of the potential problems it could cause and is causing
for many people.

I'm using Kubuntu 8.04 and will not be upgrading to any other versions
of Ubuntu until this is addressed.

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