Comment 29 for bug 240916

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Vic Main <email address hidden> wrote:
> To quote maJongg..
>
> "I have been hit by the "monitor not detected" problem too, . I think the problem is very common, but is often mis-diagnosed as a "driver issue".
> "The problems has become a virtual show-stopper" It was that for me. I tried to fix the problem (or at least get around it at least 2 years ago) I was running
>
> Ubuntu 8.x, and ended up with a 800x600 resolution. I recently installed
> version 10.04 and tried to resolve this problem again. At least the
> generic driver would do 1024x768. I have a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 with
> AGP8X card, and found out how to get around this problem.
>
> I have to echo the sentiments of majongg and TheZorch regarding this
> problem hindering the adoption of Linux, it certainly did for me!!. I
> spent at least a full day trying to get my monitor to display correctly.
> Thanks to the generous help from the forum.
>
> The main problem (let alone the monitor not being recognized), is that the software wildly guesses at the range of the HSYNC and VSYNC
> which it writes to the xorg.conf file.
>
> Thanks, Vic
>

The quickest way this can be fixed is if the feature in the screen
resolution window that let you "manually" select your monitor was put
back where it belongs, or a new GUI was made just for the monitor that
does the same thing. It is not the drivers, its Xorg and also the
fact that this feature was "removed" from Ubuntu several versions back
when it shouldn't have been.

Honestly, this could have and should have been fixed long ago. What
is the problem? Why hasn't this been dealt with in like 2 years?
Don't tell me its not a high priority issue, it is a High Priority
issue because this problem has "prevented" new users from adopting
Ubuntu. This is serious, this a usability issue, and it needs to be
dealt with ASAP.

No other answer is acceptable, its been long enough, get this issue
fixed. Its an embarrassment to the community that this problem has
persisted for so long, and its an embarrassment to LaunchPad that this
bug hasn't been made a high priority so it can finally get fixed.

Pass this onto which even group this needs to go to and have them do
something about this instead of letting the problem molder.

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