[CoLoCo] 8.10 Screen Resolution?
telecon at infosyndicate.net
telecon at infosyndicate.net
Tue Dec 2 17:21:48 GMT 2008
I cannot find it in mine. It might be a hold out from another release.
Can you give me the actual filename that menu item references?
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:15:32AM -0700, John Steinman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found it. "Screens and Graphics" has been hidden in the latest
> release. You'll need to enable it by going into
> Systems->Preferences->Main Menu. Under Menus select other, find "Screens
> and Graphics" and click on the check box to enable it. Close the Main
> Menu.
>
> You should now see the "Screen and Graphics" in the Application Pull
> down menu under "Other". This utility will let you select your Graphic
> Adapter and your Monitor Display. I just tried it and I was able to
> setup my Graphics Adapter and my monitor display to all its supported
> settings.
>
> Now it would be nice if the other "Screen Resolution" under
> System->Preferences would detect and be able to configure my display.
>
> John Steinman
>
>
>
> John Steinman wrote:
>> 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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