What happened to 'displayconfig-gtk

[DougieFresh4U]

Acouple of weeks ago I was able to type
sudo displayconfig-gtk
into terminal and a window would pop up where I could set/change screen resolution and graphics drivers. All I am getting from terminal now is:
dougie@DougiesLeanMachine:~$ sudo displayconfig-gtk
sudo: displayconfig-gtk: command not found
dougie@DougiesLeanMachine:~$
Did I miss something?

[overdrank]

Acouple of weeks ago I was able to type
sudo displayconfig-gtk
into terminal and a window would pop up where I could set/change screen resolution and graphics drivers. All I am getting from terminal now is:
dougie@DougiesLeanMachine:~$ sudo displayconfig-gtk
sudo: displayconfig-gtk: command not found
dougie@DougiesLeanMachine:~$
Did I miss something?

Hi and if you are using intrepid, yes it was removed.

[somersetsimon]

Hi and if you are using intrepid, yes it was removed.

So how are we supposed to manage our graphics cards and screen resolution now? I can't get out of my 800x600 resolution now I've installed Intrepid and I can't find any utility that even mentions my graphics card.

[steveydoteu]

System > Preferences > Screen Resolution could be a good place to look.

[thasban]

thing is, i tried typing sudo displayconfig-gtk in the terminal but it worked for me, and i'm using intrepid.

[malcuy]

System > Preferences > Screen Resolution could be a good place to look.

Yep. It would be a good place to look.
It'd also be a great place for there to be something to find.
I moved from 8.04 to 8.10 to see if it helped with the SiS graphics problem, but it looks like I now have less working then I did. 600x800 just kills this for me.

[Jim Danner]

Maybe you need to make it visible with the Menu editor (System... Preferences... Main menu)

[steveydoteu]

Yep. It would be a good place to look.
It'd also be a great place for there to be something to find.
I moved from 8.04 to 8.10 to see if it helped with the SiS graphics problem, but it looks like I now have less working then I did. 600x800 just kills this for me.

It allows you to change your screen resolution, which if I am not mistaken, is one of your original points?

[malcuy]

It allows me to change my screen resolution to a resolution that it believes my screen can handle. Without being able to tell it explicitly what hardware it's dealing with, it's defaulting to 600x800 or 640x480 as my only options. I understand that the new version of xorg almost entirely does away with the need to tell it what hardware you have, so there is almost no need for displayconfig-gtk, but there appears to be a need for it or something similar.
In this area this release of ubuntu has less functionality then the last for me and others with less supported graphics hardware.

[fronten]

i second that need!

obviously some LCDs are not detected properly so there MUST be a way to tell the driver exactly how to drive the monitor. (and test it before using it as default setting[!!!])

with xorg.conf gone and displayconfig-gtk gone what stays?