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'. It was possible to select the Sony monitor on a dropdown menu in Gutsy. Cheers Les -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tormod Volden Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 10:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Bug 241190] Re: cannot select sonyg420 monitor default res unusable
No, there are no drivers for different monitors. The X server probes the monitor itself for parameters, and if that fails, uses default values. These defaults might have changed. Sometimes the parameters given by the monitor is wrong, and we can correct this on a per-monitor basis by a "quirk" in the X server. -- cannot select sonyg420 monitor default res unusable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241190 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in "xorg" source package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: 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 get at the appropriate buttons in the dialog box to do so. Resizing merely changes the width of the dialog box in KB3 but cannot change the height. To me the 8.04 version of Kubuntu is a very large backward step since for me it is unusable. ddcontrol has been updated, trying to run LANG= LC_ALL= ddcontrol -p -c -d does not work. It will not run. Am I the only one who uses high quality crt monitor? This refers to the latest download of 8.04 with KDE3 -- cannot select sonyg420 monitor default res unusable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241190 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
