On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:04:31PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 08:34:33PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > >> 8tpv7tt02@sneakemail.com wrote: > >>> > >> I should have said this before but I have done that, several times. > >> The first entry in all the color depths is 1280x960, but the system > >> won't display anything more than 1024x768. The X mailing list has no > >> complaints about resolution, so I suspect its > >> a case of this particular monitor/card combo. I'm running an Intel MB > >> with on-board video ( the I810 driver ). > > > > can you cycle through the resolutions using > > ctrl-alt-keypad-plus/minus? > > No, doesn't work.Nothing changes. really?! how about ctrl-alt-backspace to exit X? does that work? and confirm, this is the plus or minus key on the number keypad to the right... > > > > > what video card? I think some of the cards have been moved up to the > > i9?? driver. > > On board Intel graphics 865G it looks like the xserver-xorg-video-i810 package is in transition. review the available drivers and see if there is one called 'intel' and try that maybe? the new package is called xserver-xorg-video-intel. > > > > what about using the vesa driver, how does it do? > > > Won't run with Vesa for some reason. huh. that's weird. what errors? > > > I just discovered I can switch it to 1280x960 using xrandr, but it > insists on booting up in 1024x768. can you post us the xorg log? and your xorg.conf A
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