[lug] Ubuntu upgrade to 9.10 and now my screen resolution sux

[Maxwell Spangler]

On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 17:11 -0600, bgiles wrote:
> I hope this is a quick fix - I finally upgraded my atom-based system to 
> Ubuntu 9.10 and my screen resolution has dropped to 800x600.  It doesn't 
> matter if I explicitly list higher modes and the preferred driver in 
> xorg.conf.  (I'm no longer sure if that's the right file or if it's been 
> superceded!)  What is especially annoying is that the screen resolution 
> is clearly higher during the boot process but then it goes dumb when gdm 
> starts.
> 
> xrandr only shows 800x600 and 640x480 modes so I don't think it's /just/ 
> gnome, but who knows.
> 
> The video driver is an intel 82945G/GZ and other people have reported 
> problems but none of the approaches seem to work.  Most notably they 
> already have a higher resolution (1152x864) working.  I've also added 
> the ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates but it says that I'm running the most 
> recent versions of the drivers.

Can you, as root:

# Xorg --configure

and post your /etc/xorg.conf file?

Also, you might try downloading a Fedora 12 LiveCD, boot that and see
what your results are.  If you get higher resolution, I'd use the same
command above on F12 and compared what Ubuntu says.

hth.
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