Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/29950
Short description changed to:
System>>Preferences>>Screen Resolution contains many unwanted
resolution settings. These do not agree with the list specified
during installation, the resolutions listed in xorg.conf, nor with
those in Xorg.0.log - although there does seem to be some
connection.
Description changed to:
I have two computers: Silverbox, with an Nvidia GeForce4 graphics
card and Nvidia drivers, dual boot, WinXP and Ubuntu 5.10 with k7
kernel and quite a few additions and modifications including a hand-
edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf; also, Blackbox with an old Number 9
Imagine T2R card, k6 processor, running a fresh install of Ubuntu
5.10 without updates.
They share a 19inch CTX CRT monitor and a KVM switch - the monitor
never gets identified, thus the need to edit xorg.conf..
Both exhibit the same problem: the list of resolution options
contains unwanted entries, some of which do not even work correctly.
Looking now at Blackbox. I have looked in /var/log/Xorg.0.log as
well as /etc/X11/xorg.conf and cannot find any meaningful
relationship between their resolution entries, nor can I find any
meaningful relationship between either of them and the drop-down
preferences list. The top entry on the list is 1600x1200 which is
used for the log-on screen (actually it barely works), this appears
in xorg.conf but does not appear as a usable entry in Xorg.0.log -
editing it out of xorg.conf makes it go away. 720x400 appears in
xorg.conf but not on the drop-down list. But the drop-down list
includes all sorts of extra resolutions such as 928x696 which is not
found in xorg.conf but is found in Xorg.0.log as a usable
resolution.
Silverbox and Blackbox are very different machines and the
corresponding xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log file are very different. The
problem, however, exists on both.
When I installed Ubuntu on Silverbox, I was presented with a list of
resolutions to choose from; I selected 4 - these are the ones listed
in xorg.conf. In the case of Blackbox, no list was presented and
xorg.conf contains several resolutions including those I wanted.
I would like to get rid of this feature because it is not only
confusing to users but it gives them the opportunity to make their
system unusable.
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