[ Thanks to Matt D. for
this link. ]
“Let’s face it; some distributions have better controls for
handling display issues than others. Two that do it right out of
the box that come to mind include Fedora (Red Hat) and OpenSuSE
(Novell). Each includes tools that minimize the need to do what I
gleefully refer to as the ‘Xorg dance.’ Basically, these options
mean you are going to be spending more time exploring what these
distros have to offer, yet less time wondering why your resolution
looks completely off.“Unfortunately, even with the latest release of Ubuntu, we have
yet to see this level of functionality. Thankfully, there are a
couple of projects that are working to take this problem of display
control head on, but to do so in such a way as not to create new
problems later on down the road with the next release of Ubuntu
will be an interesting challenge…”
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