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Bug 590021 - Allow to manually set horizontal and vertical frequencies of a monitor
Allow to manually set horizontal and vertical frequencies of a monitor
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Display
2.6.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Soren Sandmann Pedersen
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: randr-tracker
 
 
Reported: 2009-07-28 14:24 UTC by Uwe Dippel
Modified: 2011-02-01 03:29 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Uwe Dippel 2009-07-28 14:24:56 UTC 
Background: I have a 1600x1200 monitor that does not provide EDID. As of now, I can't use it as second monitor on my notebook. 
gnome-display-properties doesn't detect its resolutions (no EDID), and doesn't allow me to run it properly.
I can't actually use it properly as primary monitor neither; the maximum I get is 1024x768 at 60 Hz.

My request: Allow an override for horizontal and vertical frequencies. At least, when a monitor is found as 'unknown', a pop-up might want to inform the user about the problem, and offer ('advanced') to enter the values manually.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2011-02-01 03:29:03 UTC 
You should be able to create new modes by using "xrandr" on the command-line, and they will then be visible to the display panel.

We will not be adding ways to configure displays "from scratch" in the display panel though there may be advanced display tweaker applications out there.