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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: gdm
  
  I'm afraid this is a retrospective posting. The remarks below pertain to
  Xubuntu 9.0.4, and the problems which were fixed, arose again upon
  upgrading successfully to 9.10, which is no longer available for further
  tweaking. Now, I am using an Ubuntu 9.10 installed  "on windows", just
  for kicks-- pretty cool actually-- Kudos to the team for that! i'll get
  this display thing worked out. no worries here. this, it's just "for the
  record" stuff. i figure someone might want to know. data:
  crunch-n-munch. mmm
  
  Note: I have used the same hardware since using Xubuntu / Ubuntu, but I
  haven't installed 'buntu since 8.x-ish. Coming back at 9.04 -- i see the
  current display configuration (i believe) is controlled in a /new/
  manner, by gdm-- that is, not Xorg.conf, a story which is perhaps better
  told in bug #239964 , which indicates a similar frustration with display
  resolution, and a so-called "missing" Xorg.conf.
  
  *please excuse the back-and-forth, convuluted nature of this text. after
  much editing, some parts might not quite flow... but I hope you get the
  gist of it. ;)
  
  Also, as i am wont to do, this will flow as a narrative. My apologies to
  the technical writers. It's for my hoping that perhaps someone in
  documentation might get a feel for what the semi-experienced user feels,
  as he or she is going through this kind of self-help, investigative,
  debugging procedure. (:dagger:)
  
  SPECIFICS:
  I feel that bug #239964 does somewhat mirror this issue, at least-- I believe whatever is at issue here, and in #239964-- might both be attributed to the same set of changes relevant to user-end display configuration, Xorg.conf, and gdm (i presume). 
  
  Unlike #239964, however-- at least, rhetorically-- my xorg.conf was not
  "missing". I recall, before any manual editing, the path
  /etc/X11/xorg.conf was valid, was not a symlink/link and moreover,
  contained data as other Xorg.conf files i've worked with in the past,
  but on viewing it, I found the Xorg.conf Display / Screen / Monitor:
  MODES subsection-- into which I expected to prepend my text onto an
  existing 1024x768 800x600 -- did not exist, nor any resemblance . If
  memory serves, the typical Xorg.conf subsections were not at all present
  in that default xorg.conf file, for I recall searching for a viable
  facsimile from my archives, and on-line, until i found finally found a
  sample Xorg.conf. Going from that familiar formatting model, I decided
  i'd try hacking it from scratch, and do a reboot.
  
  Meanwhile, I resolved that those too-generic /etc/X11/xorg.conf settings
  must have been the reason I could not select my preferred display,
  1280x1024 @ 60Hz, as no such modes were made available to the GUI.
  Closer examination revealed generic device properties input into the
  Section headings, such as (forgive the syntax errors) Monitor0
  "Configured Monitor", "Configured Display", etc.. Only experience
  suggested this must be foreshadowing; that these were, perhaps, not the
  true settings at all-- but /configured/ elsewhere, via some process
  unbeknownst to me at the time.
  
  My first real action was to enter parameters into Xorg.conf which I know
  to be more appropriate for my hardware . I rebooted, and viola! The
  1280x1024 display i know and love was there! "woo hoo!", i thought. but,
  sadly, this did not last. whether it was another reboot, or some more
  foolish tweaking, i do not recall when i seem to have lost control to
  have not regained that display config since. I might best describe my
  experience here as FRUSTRATING. it's like-- i /know/ it's supposed to go
  that way-- but wait! No, it doesn't! Now go figure out how to do it
  /this new way/, which is fine-- but...  ugh! where is the GDM editor?
  (this is emotion, for those interested-- not constructive... "Why can't
  i find the d*mn settings for this Gnome Display Manager which has
  apparently taken over for Xorg in gathering hardware config details for
  setup?" "Why does my Xorg.conf file seem to do no good?!? ", etc., etc.,
  and it goes on... (again, i'm still here-- aren't i? it's all part of
  trying to help. trying to keep the big "U" ball a-rollin'. i try. you
  try. it's a success, mostly, and that's good. besides, the d*mn Fedora
  dvd won't even install on this, my USB drive, so there's one for the Ubu
  corner, eh?! hehe....)
  
  (:dagger:)
  (i.e. When a change to the core setup / desktop config will likely affect the seasoned user-- it might do the team well to ensure a proper, if as brief as one line-- perhaps written into the Xorg.conf itself, for example [e.g. Note: please refer to gnome display manager for all display configs, going forward from 9.04], maybe the situation would have resolved much more smoothly, as yet, i suppose i am still having problems, i regret to report. i realize, monkeys might fly out of my, but there's only so many man-hours, and millions of dollars in funding would make it a lot easier for people to sit around a write proper documentation, indeed-- i realise this-- but, look at all of the web-app-code we see floating around these days-- commented code is actually beginning to be the norm (no doubt a tradition incited by the exponential rise in pre-fab code, ah la YUI, WordPress, and brethren). ah, but i know you know this. blah, blah... it's all good. one thing for sure, a lot of it is going in the right direction.)
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxCommand: resolution_test
  CheckboxDescription:
   This display is using the following resolution:
   
   $output
   
   Is this acceptable for your display?
  CheckboxSubmission: 2bbb26ea6d524305a760b30f174e0809
  CheckboxSystem: da9af3b901b5569a389df6337f3d812f
  CheckboxTest: resolution
  Date: Wed Nov 18 11:48:17 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
  MachineType: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD MS-7267
  Package: xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=/dev/sdc1 loop=/hostname/disks/root.disk ro quiet splash
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
   libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
   libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
   xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
   xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
  SourcePackage: xorg
  Tags: checkbox-bug
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
  XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
  XsessionErrors:
   (gnome-settings-daemon:1773): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
   (nautilus:1805): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
   (gnome-display-properties:1858): Gtk-WARNING **: Ignoring the separator setting
   (gnome-display-properties:1858): Gtk-WARNING **: No object called:
  dmi.bios.date: 08/02/2007
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: V5.6
  dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.board.name: MS-7267
  dmi.board.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD
  dmi.board.version: 3.0
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD
  dmi.chassis.version: 3.0
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrV5.6:bd08/02/2007:svnMICRO-STARINTERNATIONALCO.,LTD:pnMS-7267:pvr3.0:rvnMICRO-STARINTERNATIONALCO.,LTD:rnMS-7267:rvr3.0:cvnMICRO-STARINTERNATIONALCO.,LTD:ct3:cvr3.0:
  dmi.product.name: MS-7267
  dmi.product.version: 3.0
  dmi.sys.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD
  fglrx: Not loaded
  system:
   distro:             Ubuntu
   architecture:       x86_64kernel:             2.6.31-14-generic
+ 
+ [lspci]
+ 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2772] (rev 02)
+     	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:7267]

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In lieu of /etc/X11/Xorg.conf , I am not able to set my monitor to 1280x1024 . I would prefer not to "hack" it.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/484954
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