Bug#430885: xserver-xorg-video-intel: new intel driver doesn't support all modes of i810 driver
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 08:30:11AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> > 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).
>From a subsequent email in this thread, I figured out that I need to
add --output VGA to the command line. Once I did this, I was able to
set the resolution to my desired resolution. It still seems to be a
bug that before the upgrade in respected my preferences in xorg.conf,
but afterwards it didn't.
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