[CoLoCo] 8.10 Screen Resolution?

[John Steinman]

Hi,

There use to be I believe a utility called "Screens and Graphics" that 
you could use to set or change your monitor type and resolution. This 
appears to have been retired at some point between 7.04 and the current 
release. I just upgraded to 8.04.01 and the current "Screen Resolution" 
does not have this feature. I have a SyncMaster 930B which under this 
utility is limited to 1280X1024. I was able under the older utility to 
select and use higher resolution setting. The current utility does have 
a "Detect Display" which does not appear to work or detect my display. 
This need to be fixed now that the other utility isn't available.

If we want to attract and support low end users we need "windows like" 
utilities that allow the user to identify and select their hardware 
without going through hoops and configuration files to set them up.

John Steinman


Andrew wrote:
> well, i tried a ubuntu 6.10 and a kubuntu 7.04.
>
> 6.10 did not have the feature you described. It had something called 
> "rotation", but i'm confident that is not it. It seems to have been an 
> introduced feature, and then taken away (at least in gnome).  Kubuntu 
> 7.04 had a interesting hardware tab with a "configure monitor" button. 
> which i assume is what you are trying to describe.
>
> hmm...   well, i still don't know what to tell you. Either just use 
> the alternate cd from now on, or try to track down the package and 
> just keep force downgrading it.
>
> -Andrew
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Andrew <keen101 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:keen101 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     hmm... interesting. To be honest i don't remember that feature.
>     I'm going to try some old 6.06 and 7.10 live-cd's to try and get a
>     better idea. I don't remember it in 6.06, so i'm wondering if it
>     was introduced, and then taken away. Also, back when i was using
>     6.06 i'd install with the alternate install cd which gives you an
>     option to put what resolutions you want. So, this really has never
>     been a problem for me.
>
>     it might be possible to track down the package that controlls that
>     gui interface, and force downgrade it to an older version. That
>     could probably be one fix. Another would be to install with the
>     alternate install disc.
>
>     -Andrew
>
>
>     On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:38 AM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com
>     <mailto:thezorch at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:01 AM,  <telecon at infosyndicate.net
>         <mailto: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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