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

[bgiles]

Maxwell Spangler wrote:
> 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 superceded!)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.
>   
I was unable to get to a virtual terminal (is that in inittab?  if so 
it's missing) until I hosed the xorg.conf file enough to make the screen 
unusable. :-)  Then I could run startx from the recovery console and 
copy the ModeLine to my xorg.conf file.  It's not the easiest approach 
but it got the job done.  Eventually.

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg -phigh didn't do squat, sigh.

Bear