Steve, I originally opened this bug, and then realized my main problem was failure to properly detect my monitor: bug 958439. You may want to look in that direction. Monitors *should* be communicating their capabilities to the computer, and at that point it should be easy for the OS to determine an ideal refresh rate for any resolution. So you really shouldn't need to be able to manually specify a refresh rate. And I can see, given that it should be completely unnecessary, people wanting to remove the capability to make the interface slightly less complicated. But Daniel pointed out in comment #9 that there are reasons to have it.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/958424 Title: [regression] Can't change refresh rate in Displays Status in GNOME Control Center: New Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: New Bug description: First thing I noticed when booting Precise was the screen flickering. Yes, I'm still using a CRT. I don't see any way to make the flickering go away by setting the refresh rate to something sane (for a CRT). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.3.90-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic 3.2.6 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Mar 18 05:45:08 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-control-center UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) usr_lib_gnome-control-center: activity-log-manager-control-center 0.9.2-0ubuntu2 deja-dup 21.90-0ubuntu1 gnome-bluetooth 3.2.2-0ubuntu2 indicator-datetime 0.3.90-0ubuntu1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-control-center/+bug/958424/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
