Jeff Abrahamson on 14 May 2006 17:08:51 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Xorg and screen resolution


On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 11:09:11AM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
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> 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

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