the below workaround is posted elsewhere (in pieces), but may be useful for those experiencing this bug: I finally came to use it for an old machine (otherwise working karmic perfectly of course) with an old D1751 17" AT&T monitor, after lots of research....
# use 'cvt' to get the modeline below to set for YOUR machine # commands to set the screen to 1024 X 768 with xrandr, only on the machine required xrandr --newmode "1024x768_60.00" 63.50 1024 1072 1176 1328 768 771 775 798 -hsync +vsync xrandr --addmode VGA1 1024x768_60.00 xrandr -s 2 # xrandr seems to work around the issue of the 'barebones' xorg.conf -- geode driver do not display 1024x600 on (K)UNR Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/433142 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs