Basically this is a dupe of #283986; see
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17215 as well.
The resolutions changed because your monitor was not being detected
properly on hardy, so you got a set of generic default resolutions.
That issue got fixed in intrepid. Jaunty improves a bit
It seems that I was wrong. I found a document on the dell support site
where all preset display modes of my external display are listed [1].
But I know that the externel monitor is also able to display other
resolutions e.g. 1440x900 (Intrepid offers this resolution). The real
problem for me is
Thank you for reporting this bug. Could you please upload the following as
separate attachments:
- /var/log/Xorg.0.log
- the output of `lspci -vvnn`
- /etc/X11/xorg.conf if you made any changes there
- the output of `sudo get-edid | parse-edid` (you will need the read-edid
package for this)
