Ubuntu 10.04 screen resolutions

[Fabio FZero]

I gave up on Ubuntu precisely because of that. It couldn't make heads
or tails of my old-ish Toshiba notebook videocard unless I
specifically added a kernel option on grub. This is simply not
acceptable because:

1. It's 2010. It's high time we're past that kind of issue.
2. The videocard is a common, run-of-the-mill, standard, old Intel GMA 950.
3. The previous Ubuntu versions worked perfectly (for shame!).

So guess which distro worked fine out of the box?

Debian testing.

By the way it has serioulsy improved since they fixed their release
schedule; you can't really complain that the packages are out of date
anymore (yes, even in stable).

- FZ

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 16:55, marthter <marthter-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Arg.  Why oh why must everything keep getting "improved" until it is broken?
>
> On a new Ubuntu 10.04 install... trying to troubleshoot a problem of
> auto-detected resolutions not including half of the desired resolutions
> which I know the hardware supports.
>
> Unfortunately after a full day of googling and experimenting most of the
> forums posts seem to be either outdated or moronic blind-leading-the-blind
> wrong answers.  The ones that are almost-there on what I think has (usually,
> lately) been the right way of doing it do not quite get around my problem.
>
> Does anyone have good suggestions of intelligent Ubuntu forums to post
> something like this in? or would it be too off topic to post such a question
> here?  (I suppose an intelligent Ubuntu forum would be called a Debian
> newsgroup right?  oh zing!)
>
> Cheers.
>
> Martin
>
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