Public bug reported:
Feisty Herd 3, 4, 5 booting CD Live comes up in 1024x768 on a 17" LCD
screen instead of 1280x1024x24. Looking at /etc/X11/xorg.conf the LCD
is identified as an Elographics Touch Screen, whatever that is. This is
the bug, wrong identification of monitor.
Booting up in safe graphics mode correctly identifies Hanns.G HC174
screen however response is noticeably slow, on an IBM NetVista 2GHZ
Pentium 4 with integrated Intel 82845 video adapter. Especially
annoying is the slow screen ripple with mouse scroll wheel.
To investigate the bug I've tried CD Live versions of PCLinuxOS (which
this is at the moment), Puppy Linux, and Simply Mepis. All three of
these Linux competitors to Ubuntu come right up in 1280x1024 with crisp,
sharp, fast screen response. Even little DSL (Damn Small Linux, 48MB)
correctly gets the screen resolution right but is admittedly a little
slow.
All these are "open source" so the code to properly identify the LCD
monitor and screen resolution is public.
For Ubuntu to get wider usage, it should at least be equal to the
current competition, if not Best of Breed. These larger screens are
dropping in price and becoming more widely available.
Cheers, Jerry Amos
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Feisty doesn't recognize 17" LCD screen
https://launchpad.net/bugs/89590
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