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Re: xorg video parameter changes



On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:51:46PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> I have just installed sid on a Portege 4010 that I just acquired.  I used 
> the very latest lenny network installer.  I installed all packages beyond 
> the base install at my control with aptitude.
>
> The whole screen isn't being used.  It looks like it is using 800x600 out 
> of the available 1024x768.  The xorg.conf has basically *no* video 
> infcrmation. sudo dpkg-reconfigure -p<low|medium|high> gives no opportunity 
> to detect or choose the video card or monitor.

That should be 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg'

> I have googled for quite a while and not found how to get control of this 
> process.  Possibly I am missing an xorg related package.  I didn't install 
> xorg just every other xorg related package that looked necessary.  Icewm is 
> running just fine.

Please post the output of 'lspci | grep VGA' and
'dpkg -l *xorg* | grep ii' to see if anything is missing.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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