Thread: Display resolution frustration solved by Fedora, why not Ubuntu?

i have bad news ubuntu fans. here's story:

fed windows world, earlier year decided set linux on 1 of spare machines , try make work me. ubuntu seemed distro buzz, tried it, , tried hard make work, have given up.

installation smoother , nicer remember red hat years ago, , -- until display came in 800x600 resolution (on 1280x1024 lcd monitor) , no better resolutions offered through monitors gui. worked on hours, googled everything, tried xrandr, tried editing xorg.conf in of arcana , folklore, trying determine monitor timings , junk that, , somehow coaxed monitor display in 1280x1024, stuff clipped off on both sides no amount of fiddling various settings fix.

asked many people including knowledgeable , helpful people seemed speak for/from ubuntu , canonical, , told problem monitor reporting wrong edid (?) values. maybe so, windows handles aplomb. did try installing ubuntu using different monitor , helped, worn out trying solve should non-problem.

why not accept 800x600? because quite few gui items in ubuntu don't work @ low resolution - example, monitor gui itself!

kind of thing prevent linux ever making small dent in windows market share.

here new news: last week tried installing fedora 13. allowed monitor come higher res mode, still not wanted. -- fedora provides utility called system-config-display allows set ever resolution want - just windows!

message canonical: because works on 1 machine doesn't make enough. display resolution thing has been major frustration lot of people - google "ubuntu display resolution" lots of frustration , little success. there solutions this: windows has one, mac does, , fedora. not ubuntu.

in response pleas on in other forums, 1 person said "what expect free?" helpful.

subsequently found fedora better job of handling of other ubuntu frustrations, i'm on fedora keeps because works.

sorry ubuntu , canonical. wanted you, made hard me, , many others.

yeah, dual boot fedora , ubuntu. both great distro's.

graphics card/chip have?

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