Comment 5 for bug 138820

@Sebastian: I am personally glad to modify xorg.conf myself, but I know the press and bloggers that will evaluate Ubuntu won't. I am an open source evangelist, but that doesn't stop me from criticizing how reality deviate from the utopia.

Display configuration is inherently hard. Making use of what you detected from the display card and monitor, you can construct a config but you are never 100% it will work. This is the reason you have a "Test" button! Under this circumstance, I don't see the reason why we should not add much more commonly used resolutions to the list, even if they are not detected. Even adding a pair of text boxes to type any arbitrary resolution makes sense.

The real reason it looks unacceptable: What is the "LCD Panel 1680x1050" for? I would guess it is used in case I know my monitor supports this resolution, but I cannot find it in the list and don't have the Windows inf file on hand. Then how come 1680x1050 resolution is given as a choice?