fixing the quoting... On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 06:08:17PM +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > On 17 June 2010 18:03, Thomas H. George <lists@tomgeorge.info> wrote: > > > > > A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem: > > > > The display resolution is stuck at 640x480 and the X window is moved to > > F9. > > > > My system is Debian Squeeze. Yesterday (16 Jun 10) I ran apt-get update > > and apt-get dist-upgrade. The system was shutdown overnight. When > > rebooted this morning the X window was at F9 and the resolution 640x480. > > I ran startupmanager which reported the resolution to be 1600x1200 but > > the system remained stuck in the 640x480 mode. > > > > Anyone else encountering this problem? Is there another way to change > > the resolution? > > Check your HorizSync and VertRefresh values in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It's > probably just set values that are woefully low to be on the safe > side. If he even has an xorg.conf. OP, maybe look at the output of xrandr from a terminal in the X session. It should list the available output resolutions. If you post that along with the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf, if it exists, along with /var/log/Xorg.0.log to this list you should get reasonable response. A
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