[Hardy][Regression] No content in the displayconfig GUI

I've got the same problem with my Acer Aspire 3000 (SiS M760 graphics) but not on my HP Desktop (GeForce4 MX 420 using nv driver). [This was not intended as a 'me too' comment.]

I have the same on my Toshiba Satellite Pro 6050 laptop using Hardy Alpha 3.

The application crashed, triggered apport which then announced

Problem in displayconfig-gtk

The problem cannot be reported:
This is not a genuine Ubuntu package.

From duplicate bug 188821 :

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CZIGOLA Gabor wrote:
Running in terminal reveals, that displayconfig is not compatible with a ServerLayout-less xorg.conf

$ gksu displayconfig-gtk
*** Error: couldn't find any ServerLayout sections

Any suggestions? Should Ubuntu ship with a different default xorg.conf or is displayconfig handling the situation improperly?

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Greg Grossmeier wrote:
I can confirm this now when commenting out the ServerLayout section of my xorg.conf (works with ServerLayout uncommented)

The same thing on my 965GM chipset intel video in Hardy Alpha 4

I have the same problem, but furthermore I'm running in low graphics mode (any resolution higher than 800x600 is impossible). I'm using Hardy alpha 4 on a Creative Labs 3D Blaster Banshee 16MB.

Lieven: did you tried to set a higher resolution with xrandr ? displayconfig-gtk is only a graphical front end for xrandr.
This bug belongs to the GUI application itself. If it is not possible to set higher resolutions with xrandr, you should file a bug report against xrandr or the driver of your graphic chip.

Same with the latest alpha inside VirtualBox (with the guest additions module installed).

Same problem with the most recent version of Alpha 4. However,
this gui did work in an earlier version of Alpha 4. There was content
in the gui: graphics card, display model, etc was displayed with
a set of down drop down choices. Now everything is empty although
there is no problem with the display. Screen resolution is set
correctly.

Using it on a Dell C610 laptop with an ATI card.

Yepper. I just upgraded to hardy, and after upgrading I had some updates pending. It must have been something that came out today or yesterday.

It looks for me, as would this program still try to use the old, xorg.conf editing way to configure the display settings.
For example if I extend my xorg.conf with a ServerLayout section, so it starts properly. But it offers me of setting up two video cards for my laptop (it has only one).
This implies that it still enables to set up the old and now illegal way, of having a "dual-head" config that is, to specify multiple device, display and screen sections for a single video card, and than using them together in a single ServerLayout section with parameters like "LeftOf".
It also has no way of selecting "do not specify" as video card, to have it autodetected.

displayconfig should not edit xorg.conf in any way, instead it should configure the display with and based only on xrandr. That would also dismiss the requirement of being a super user for it's running.

oh sorry, I forgot to mention:
I also propose to increase the severity of this bug, because this time Hardy has no way of configuring the display (except the now not recommended way of editing xorg.conf by hand, or using the xrandr facility from the console).

Certainly a LTS distro MUST not have this bug. It's not a
security issue, but still the severity is higher than medium.

Raising to high since it affects a huge estimated number of ubuntu users. This must be fixed before final release.