This is a well-known issue with monitors that do not notify their size through cable signals. Either the installed resolution is set to 800×600 and the user does not know how to get it higher because System/Preferences/Monitor.../Resolution has no appropriate setting, Or, as in the case I described, because Ubuntu uses too high a resolution and the user sees nothing. Launchpad is full with such reports, please get information there.
So, the obvious general solution to this problem is to send this general issue to development so that, as I said, they implement something like what is done in Windows: use a low setting with unknown monitors and propose to try a higher one. If your question is : has that been done, the answer is : Ubuntu knows better that we do and Ubuntu should tell us instead of the opposite. What I can add is that lately I ran under Virtualbox an Intrepid that has been running with a self-describing 1280×800 monitor and that the (virtual) screen was unreadable. This sounds very strange to me because I suppose that Virtualbox describes its monitor size. I has to boot in safe mode and ask for X Windows recovery. It might well be made more obvious that X fixes screen problems. To the general user, X has another meaning. What I would appreciate most for the various bugs I report is not to repeatedly have to write pages and pages full of obviousness to one line messages, sometimes the same to several people. Thank you. Please set this problem to confirmed. It has been confirmed many times throughout launchpad. -- Various bad Monitor resolutions after installation or monitor change https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538600 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
