I apologize, but I'm even more frustrated than you are. When someone calls a request a "wishlist" it usually means (including in bug reports) it is something trivial, or unneeded, or cosmetic, or on a whim. That it gets the LOWEST possible triage ahead of invalid or a wontfix. Even though this "wish" is simply to have a way of getting working video on my laptop. I CANNOT MAKE MY LAPTOP WORK UNDER INTREPID. The tool in hardy has disappeared, and the automated tools in intrepid don't work.
Every time I upgrade this particular laptop to a new release, I LOSE most of the functionality and have to spend hours getting it back. The Via/chrome/openchrome I had to download separately under Edgy and Feisty worked with a few quirks. Gutsy had the 3d broken (lockup) and the old driver wouldn't compile. Hardy would work if I manually selected the display and driver, but not with accelerated 3d. Now with Intrepid I'm limited to VESA, and the LCD monitor size detection is still broken after all these years, but you've removed the manual tool To quote and annotate my original post: > Vesa comes up in 800x600. There is no official way in intrepid to set it to the correct resolution of 1024x768. If there is a way to get the correct resolution, please tell me how. I can upload all kinds of register dumps but nothing happens when I do and so doesn't fix the problem. I did one of the X drivers a while ago (Cirrus, I forget which model) so I could probably help if I knew where to look, but this is under VESA, not the specific driver and the BIOS is probably not being truthful or the correct panel size is simply not available using newer, standard methods. (It also has an external display which can go to 1600x1200 and it occasionally seems to detect that even without external monitor instead so I see the login box at the lower bottom and can't see the login toolbar). It might require a special probe be written just for this one setup. > The "gksu displayconfig-gtk" if I select both Vesa and 1024x768, test successfully and say keep will set my display. I have this leftover from hardy or gutsy. THIS IS THE PROGRAM REMOVED FROM INTREPID. I need this manual backstop since your detection is broken and probably will never be fixed (and I'm not trying to be annoying here - this is an old driver, so is considered legacy, and would require a lot of effort for little payback, so if it is not fixed by some other thing it has in common, the automatic detection and/or the hardware specific driver won't work on this laptop - it has been three years and it simply breaks in a different and worse way each time - in some ways this is worse than an abandoned proprietary driver). The manual configuration program should be installable as an option from the current display configuration - if gnome-display-properties doesn't do the right thing, a button, perhaps "advanced" or "manual" from that should (possibly install and) bring up displayconfig-gtk or an equivalent manual utility or otherwise have some way I can manually set 1024x768. The xorg.conf has always been hard to edit manually particularly the modelines. >The gnome-display-properties cannot be made to find my LCD monitor in my laptop, nor is there any way to set it manually to an LCD so it only allows the default 800x600 resolution. Perhaps it can be made to work, but only after a ridiculous amount of effort for a single old laptop. Is that really better than just having a way to do manual setting? The 800x600 looks bad and doesn't work well. > I can find no way to manually select a display under Intrepid, and the automatic detection doesn't work. So I'm stalemated. All I want is the manual setting program to be put back in (or at least be available via some obvious mechanism). I can even send you the laptop (though it is having power problems at the moment which I probably need to resolve). Hours of effort will fix that one laptop, but what about the next one that has a similar problem and needs a manual tweak but the program to do that will still not be available? I run across lots of old hardware and most of the time the auto probes works, but more than enough times I have to set things manually. It was at least possible in the prior versions. It is not possible under intrepid. The newest hardware is probably all supported, but what about all the legacy systems that aren't? -- need tool for manually configuring xorg.conf https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296437 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
