Barry: as you can see from the ddcprobe output, it fails to read the EDID of your monitor, and that's why you don't get a proper resolution.
Lowering the severity since there is not much we can do with the current method of getting the resolution. ** Changed in: xresprobe (Ubuntu) Importance: High => Medium -- Desktop installer setting wrong resolution in Dapper RC https://launchpad.net/bugs/46767 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs