Ubuntu
gnome-control-center package

  1. Bug #240916
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 240916

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Przemek K. (azrael) wrote : Re: Screen Resolution Limitations

I'm also affected by this bug.
I'm using Ubuntu for over 3 years, and I've survived many difficulties with configuration, but now I must say that the new Xorg resolution autodetection simply sucks!
It can't detect correct resolution settings on both my laptop (ati, 8.04) and pc (nvidia, 8.10), using both open and closed driver. I always have to configure xorg.conf by hand because that's the only option to get the best results.
Not having any possibility to manually choose graphics card and monitor in GUI is a serious limitation and a regression from previous versions.
Yes, I know that power users like me can type in whole xorg.conf by hand, but that's painful and takes much more time than clicking in the gui and choosing all the stuff manually.
I miss the old tools from breezy-feisty era.