subject: Re: Giving up on Edgy

[Mario Vukelic]

Let me first get this out of the way: I assume you have checked here
(from a quick google search for out-of-range AND ubuntu AND lcd):
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=286241
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1773112

On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 12:24 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> When hardware works fine
> under other OS's (like Windows, I can dual boot) and versions (like
> Ubuntu 5.10) and the machine ceases to work correctly when all that
> changed was the software (to Ubuntu 6.10), no rational being would say
> it sounds like a hardware problem.

I would not be so quick with that conclusion. It is certainly possible
that the hardware behaves incorrectly, both Windows and Ubuntu 5.10
forgave the error for some reason, and a fix in Edgy broke it as it
"should". 
I am not talking about fantasies here: I once had an Apple CRT that
actually supported slightly smaller sync frequencies than the manual
stated. It worked fine for years in Slackware and Suse, but after one
update produced "out of range", apparently because a newer Xfree release
behaved more correctly than an older one. Reconfiguring with slightly
smaller frequencies worked.


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