Strange Hokuyo laser range with libgazebo_ros_gpu_laser.so

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In a trial to publish laser output to ROS world, I followed the tutorial and the range of visualized laser on Gazebo is very short while using the same value from the tutorial (min: 0.1 and max: 30.0). ROS topic was published but due to this shortest range nothing could be detected.

<sensor type="gpu_ray" name="head_hokuyo_sensor">
  <pose>0 0 0 0 0 0</pose>
  <visualize>true</visualize>
  <update_rate>40</update_rate>
  <ray>
    <scan>
      <horizontal>
        <samples>720</samples>
        <resolution>1</resolution>
        <min_angle>-1.570796</min_angle>
        <max_angle>1.570796</max_angle>
      </horizontal>
    </scan>
    <range>
      <min>0.10</min>
      <max>30.0</max>
      <resolution>0.01</resolution>
    </range>
    <noise>
      <type>gaussian</type>
      <!-- Noise parameters based on published spec for Hokuyo laser
           achieving "+-30mm" accuracy at range < 10m.  A mean of 0.0m and
           stddev of 0.01m will put 99.7% of samples within 0.03m of the true
           reading. -->
      <mean>0.0</mean>
      <stddev>0.01</stddev>
    </noise>
  </ray>
  <plugin name="gazebo_ros_head_hokuyo_controller" filename="libgazebo_ros_gpu_laser.so">
    <topicName>/spur/laser/scan</topicName>
    <frameName>/hokuyo_sensor_link</frameName>
  </plugin>
</sensor>

Is this bug or am I doing something wrong?

Btw, cince I switched to libgazebo_ros_laser.so by following this blog with the following config and I got the laser range I wanted, my issue is resolved.

<sensor type="ray" name="laser">
  <pose>0 0 0 0 0 0</pose>
  <visualize>true</visualize>
  <update_rate>40</update_rate>
  <ray>
    <scan>
      <horizontal>
        <samples>720</samples>
        <resolution>1</resolution>
        <min_angle>-1.570796</min_angle>
        <max_angle>1.570796</max_angle>
      </horizontal>
    </scan>
    <range>
      <min>0.1</min>
      <max>4.0</max>
      <resolution>0.01</resolution>
    </range>
    <noise>
      <type>Gaussian</type>
      <mean>0.0</mean>
      <stddev>0.01</stddev>
    </noise>
  </ray>
  <plugin name="hokuyo_node" filename="libgazebo_ros_laser.so">
    <topicName>/spur/laser/scan</topicName>
    <frameName>/hokuyo_sensor_link</frameName>
  </plugin>
</sensor>

Ubuntu 14.04, Gazebo 2.2.5, ROS Indigo