I've updated hwdata in disco, but looking at the gnome-desktop code it seems to query the info from udev/hwdb nowadays and not hwdata. Could you test on >= bionic if the vendor is still buggy (Goldstar instead of LG)? The fix does make sense for xenial though so I'm going to SRU there
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to hwdata in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1755490 Title: Incorrect information about display shown in unity-control-center Status in hwdata package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in unity-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Bug description: [Impact] * There is a number of display devices that misuse the width & height field in EDID. Instead of real size in centimeters it contains encoded aspect ratio (e.g. 1600x900, 16x10, 160x90). This leads to incorrect calculation of diagonal for the purpose of e.g. Unity settings app. [Test Case] 1. Connect a display device that provides incorrect EDID data (e.g. LG 49UB850T-DA TV). 2. Open the Displays section of Unity settings. 3. Look for the name of the newly connected display in the settings window. Expected result: Display name should contain it's real diagonal. Actual result: Display name contains a ridiculous diagonal (e.g. 72" in case of a 49" display). [Regression Potential] * This affects the way the display name will be formatted for any software using unity-settings-daemon. If anything is testing/comparing display names - it may fail. [Other Info] * Original bug description: After connecting a LG 49UB850T-DA TV the following information is displayed in the unity-control-center: Goldstar Company Ltd 72" It's misleading since neither the company name nor the diagonal matches. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hwdata/+bug/1755490/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
