Ok. I don't have a /usr/share/hwdata/pnp.ids, but I do have a /usr/share/libgnome-desktop/pnp.ids, which seems to contain the data you describe.
Removing one of the entries seems to do the trick: as soon as I removed the "IBM France" entry, the monitor showed up in the control panel as "IBM Brasil 20"". Something I didn't mentioned earlier is that while a string of garbage was the most common symptom before, a few garbage characters then "France" was also quite common which makes sense now I know the data is coming from this list. Nonetheless looks like there is a bug where multiple matching entries in the table causes the string to be mangled. -- regression: Monitor label has garbage characters in gnome-display-properties https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/651731 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-desktop in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
