screen resolution problems with Hardy Herron
Owen Townend
owen.townend at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 08:27:54 UTC 2008
2008/9/24 Michael TheZorch Haney <thezorch at gmail.com>:
> This is a problem I ran into myself. The main issue is the fact that
> new screen resolution controls in Ubuntu do not allow you to manually
> change the settings for your monitor. This is a serious bug and I've
> issues a bug report on it. There is a workaround, two actually. One is
> complicated and hard to do. It involves shutting down X.org and
> reconfiguring it. The other works but its not graceful or elegant.
>
> In a terminal window type this command...
>
> sudo displayconfig-gtk
>
> The old screen resolution window from 7.10 will appear. In this window
> you can change your monitor settings and then you'll be able to adjust
> your screen resolution to what you want it to be. If you can't find
> your monitor in the list use one of the default monitors selecting the
> maximum resolution you want to use. Don't select Default Monitor, that
> setting keeps you locked at 640x480.
>
> You login screen will look a little funny but it'll be usable. I
> switched to Kubuntu 8.04 which still lets you select your monitor
> settings manually to fix the problem.
>
> I'm hoping that the developers fix this issue in the next version of
> Ubuntu and add the feature for adjusting your monitor type on the screen
> resolution window. If they don't then this problem will continue into
> the next release and that isn't acceptable.
Hey,
Recent news: Phoronix had an article or two on the changes they've
made to BulletProofX for Intrepid:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_bulletproofx_2&num=1
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjczNA
Looks like it might help solve the issues around in Hardy...
cheers,
Owen.
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