Public bug reported: There are still a lot of Monitors which don't have a propper EDID. The autodetection can't detect them right, but there is no solution provided to configure these Mpnitors manually or Displayconfig-gtk is broken. It is a big bad expirience for a user if the resolution or the refresh-rate is stck at a undisireble configuration. A too low refresh-rate is also bad for health (60hz).
(A comment from the blueprints: 2008-03-10 bryce: This is considered complete now. There are a few corner cases where monitors aren't reporting proper EDID (such as if used with a KVM that drops the EDID pin) where rates must be manually specified, but it will never be possible to autodetect these; something like displayconfig-gtk is the right tool to use in these cases if one wishes to not deal with direct xorg.conf editing. Other unique cases, where the monitor is reporting EDID, but improperly, are being handled via monitor quirks into xserver on a case-by-case basis as they're discovered.) ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Summary changed: - Hardy - Monitors whitout EEID + Hardy - Monitors whitout EDID ** Description changed: - There are still a lot of Monitors which don't have a propper EEID. The - autodetection can't detect them right, but ther is no solution provided + There are still a lot of Monitors which don't have a propper EDID. The + autodetection can't detect them right, but there is no solution provided to configure these Mpnitors manually or Displayconfig-gtk is broken. It is a big bad expirience for a user if the resolution or the refresh-rate is stck at a undisireble configuration. A too low refresh-rate is also bad for health (60hz). (A comment from the blueprints: 2008-03-10 bryce: This is considered complete now. There are a few corner cases where monitors aren't reporting proper EDID (such as if used with a KVM that drops the EDID pin) where rates must be manually specified, but it will never be possible to autodetect these; something like displayconfig-gtk is the right tool to use in these cases if one wishes to not deal with direct xorg.conf editing. Other unique cases, where the monitor is reporting EDID, but improperly, are being handled via monitor quirks into xserver on a case-by-case basis as they're discovered.) -- Hardy - Monitors whitout EDID https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219815 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