Bug#430885: xserver-xorg-video-intel: new intel driver doesn't support all modes of i810 driver
Itai Seggev wrote:
> The output to the first two commands is below.
Did you forget to paste it ?
> I didn't know about
> xrandr and using it to resize. When I tried the command above
> involving --mode, I got a usage message but that's it.
You need to upgrade xbase-clients to 7.2 (in testing).
> I'll be losing
> access to this machine in a few days (new job), so I won't be able to
> help with tings for much longer.
>
Ok, if you're not able to test/debug/help things anymore for this bug,
we'll probably close it until somebody else meets it.
But I am pretty confident that your problem is just about the preferred
mode of your monitor not being the largest one, and xrandr should allow
to change it after starting X.
Brice
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