I have a flat screen LCD monitor and the refresh rate is set out of range. I have no idea what 12.04 thinks it's dealing with. Occasionally I get a visible screen for a second or so which after many such second-long flashes lets me change to resolution to 1024x768 which, though not nice (native 1280x1028) is readable and thence to 1280x960. I have just "upgraded" from 10.04 and found I can no longer set the refresh rate manually. Why is it that "upgrading" so often leads to loss of functionality? Installing Mate restores all the functionality of 10.04 (including the world daylight indicator) and as a bonus removes Unity. So I can now run my monitor at nice resolution and refresh rate. Now all I have to do is find a way to keep the settings as default so I can actually see the screen when I log in. "Set as default" doesn't seem to work :-( Time to look into xrandr I suppose. If the problem is known as an upstream bug and it makes 12.04 almost unusable without Mate shouldn't it be fixed?
-- 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
