Re: screen resolution problems with Hardy Herron

2008/9/24 Michael TheZorch Haney <thezorch@xxxxxxxxx>:
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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