| Jeff Abrahamson on 14 May 2006 17:08:51 -0000 |
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On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 11:09:11AM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > [17 lines, 103 words, 669 characters] Top characters: oetrinsg > > I did a dist-upgrade today and in the process switched from xfree to > xorg. I'm now unable to display more than 800x600. > > I'm googling, but it's slow going at this resolution. Some say doing > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg should help, but for me it only brings > me up to 1024x768. (I'm trying for 2048x1536.) Editing the xorg.conf > file hasn't produced good results yet. I've also tried switching (via > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg) to xfree86 again, but that also doesn't > help. The display resolution problem was partially solved by realizing it was using vesa, which I think is limited to 1024x768. Switched to nv. As root it is happy now. When I start X via gdm or using startx but as me, it hangs and I have to reboot the machine or at least login from elsewhere and kill a lot of things. This is a known bug (Debian 365564). *Sigh*. -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://jeff.purple.com/> +1 215/837-2287 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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