Public bug reported:
I've discovered a serious problem with Screen Resolution under
Preferences which should be immediately addressed. The problem is a
limited set of resolution opens for users of older Nvidia and ATI
graphics card. I ran into this problem after install Hardy Heron on my
desktop with an Nvidia Geforce FX 5600 8x AGP card. My resolution
options were limited to 640x480 after installing the drivers via
Administration~>Hardware Drivers. I use Compiz Fusion's zooming and
color inversion features due to my visual impairment but limiting my
screen resolution to 640x480 made using certain dialog boxes impossible.
I searched for resolutions to this problem. I first tried EnvyNG, a
tool which uses scripts to install Nvidia and ATI drives but this didn't
fix the problem and the legacy drivers wouldn't work with desktop
compositing GLX. I tried using xrandr, xfix, nvida-settings, and
nvidia-xconfig but none of these would fix the problem either. Finally,
I found a forum suggesting that I run the old GTK screen resolution
tools from Gutsy which is still within Hardy. Here is where I
discovered the serious limitation of the new Screen Resolution window in
Hardy.
The old GTK Screen Resolution window for Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 lets
you specify what kind of monitor you are using manually X.org is unable
to determine what kind of monitor you have when you install Ubuntu.
Screen Resolution under the Preferences menu in Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04
does not give the user this option. This is a serious limitation which
I believe should be addressed as soon as possible. Not allowing a user
to specify what type of monitor they have and relying totally on the
driver and X.org to figure out what monitor is being used will effect
users like me who do not have standard monitors. My display is a VGA
capable Sun Microsystems 21inch workstation display. It is not standard
because when I try to use it with a laptop running Wkindows Vista the OS
is unable to determine what kind of monitor it is and the display blinks
on and off as the driver tries to figure out what it is. An option to
manually select what monitor you have should be added to Screen
Resolution in Hardy Heron.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Screen Resolution Limitations
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240916
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