screen resolution problems with Hardy Herron

[Derek Broughton]

vincent wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Robert Holtzman wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Michael "TheZorch" Haney wrote:
>>>
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>>>
>>>     
>>>> 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.
>>>>       
>>>                  .................snip..................
>>>
>>>     
>>>> 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.
>>>>       
>>> Damned strange. System -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution works like a
>>> charm on my box. That doesn't sound like a bug to me.
>>>     
>>  
>> Sounds normal to me.  Bugs that affect _everybody_ rarely make it into a
>> stable release.  It's the ones like this that only effect some people
>> that cause the trouble...
>>   
> I've been following this thread with interest as I had the same problem
> with Ubuntu 8.04, it didn't recognise my monitor or graphics card &
> would only install & display in 800x600 or 640x480 reso. The System>
> Preference option is locked into 640 or 800 reso if Ubuntu doesn't
> recognise the monitor or graphics & can't be changed from there. 

The problem is that your X configuration doesn't have any other options
available for KDE to play with.  If you get an xorg.conf that gives other
options (which is what you've done) then those modes become available to
KDE.
-- 
derek