RE: [Bug 241190] Re: cannot select sonyg420 monitor default res unusable

2009-02-02 Thread lesr
Sorry, I guess I have had too much to do with windows and not enough to do with Ubuntu. The easy fix would be to have more realistic values for the default setting. Surely nobody has monitors these days of such low resolution. Perhaps the system is getting too complicated to make it 'user friendly

RE: [Bug 241190] Re: cannot select sonyg420 monitor default res unusable

2009-02-02 Thread lesr
I am sorry but I cannot tell you anymore other than that there is no driver for the Sony monitor and there used to be one in Gutsy. I don't know how else I can describe it. It is not a bug so much as the absence of a driver. Cheers Les -Original Message- From: boun...@canonical.com [ma

RE: [Bug 241190] Re: cannot select sonyg420 monitor default res unusable

2009-02-02 Thread lesr
It is not an issue for me any more because: (a) I have gone back to windows XP and (b) I now have a HP LCD monitor. However this bug has been known about for yonks and fixes are available on various forums. It is a pity the producers of Ubuntu and KDE don't keep up and include it in their current

RE: [Bug 241190] Re: cannot select sonyg420 monitor default res unusable

2008-10-24 Thread lesr
Hi Bryce I eventually found in one of the forums that this is a relatively long standing issue and that there is a fix which I forget what it was. I think this is rather poor that this issue has been known about for some time yet no effort is made to fix the operating system software. It is not

[Bug 241190] [NEW] cannot select sonyg420 monitor default res unusable

2008-06-19 Thread lesr
Public bug reported: There is no driver for Sony g420 monitor (there used to be in Gutsy) consequently a very low non adjustable resolution is set by default. This cannot be changed in "settings, monitor " This is so bad as to render the system unusable. eg I cannot burn dvds because I cannot