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Re: screen resolution

Felipe,
Thanks for responding...
It's using GLINT, which I believe is the one it
should be using.  I even tried vesa, but that was
one of the cases where it wouldn't even come up.
Ed

Felipe Gallois wrote:

hello there,

what driver is your xorg using?
$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver

if it is using vesa, then your card's driver is not being loaded...
i can't count how many times this was the main problem for me =)
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 15:23, Ed Sutter <esutter@alcatel-lucent.com <mailto:esutter@alcatel-lucent.com>> wrote: 

    Hi,
    New to this list, and new to Debian.  Just installed this over top of
    an old installation of RH9, which worked fine, just a bit dated.  My
    machine is a K6-2, old but reliable.
    I installed by creating a small install CD, booting from CD and then
    basically letting it do its thing for an hour downloading stuff and
    installing a fresh system.  That all went well, I am able to log
    into the console etc; however, the screen resolution is stuck at
    640x480.

    I've read through the archives and googled till my fingers are sore.
    All the solutions I've seen say to modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf either
    manually
    or by using dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg.  Then restart gdm.

    Tried that several times, and I've gotten one of two results each time:

    1) either it has no effect at all or
    2) xserver won't even start up because its confused.

    Bottom line, is that I can't do much at the console with a 640x480
    resolution
    because many of the dialog boxes span outside the window, and they
    are not
    moveable; hence, if I want to be able to use the GNOME environment
    fruitfully
    I need to get the resolution up.

    I have a Permedia 2 graphics card and a Princeton 19" LCD display.
     The auto-detect
    in xserver-xorg seems to find that ok.  They're both capable of
    handling 1280x1024
    and the xorg.conf file that is created by dpkg-reconfigure
    xserver-xorg shows that
    this resolution is possible.

    No matter what I do, I'm not able to get the screen resolution up.
     It appears that
    it is just defaulting to the bare minimum resolution for some
    reason, but as far as
    I can tell, the card and monitor are properly being detected.

    Anyone have any ideas?
    Thanks
    Ed
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