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Old 10-24-2006, 06:22 PM   #1
IndyGunFreak
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Screen Resolution problem- What the heck happened


OK, I restarted my computer this evening, and my screen resolution has went to hell. I can't get it off 640x480. Only thing I've done, is add X and Kde on top of my Ubuntu desktop. Unfortunatley, when I try to change it, it won't allow me to, thats the only option.

Everything(including the other two desktops), was working fine prior to the restart. I'm 99% certain there's an error detecting my video card, because I have Ubuntu on another hard drive, on this same computer, and booted it, and all is normal(that hard drive will soon have FC6 on installed).

Video Card is an ATI 9550

Any ideas? This is absurdly hard to read..

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Old 10-24-2006, 06:47 PM   #2
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Go to a console and type sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to get your settings right again.
 
Old 10-24-2006, 06:51 PM   #3
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Go to a console and type sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to get your settings right again.
I'll try that, thank you.

Anyone happen to know how many KB's are in a 256mb Video card?

Thanks
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Old 10-24-2006, 07:05 PM   #4
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I always forget about OS's having a handy calculator..

Redeye, You rock... Worked like a charm..

Any idea why that happened though?

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Old 10-24-2006, 07:39 PM   #5
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Yes. The KDE install most likely pulled in a xorg upgrade which killed xorg.conf.

Either that or the kde install itself murdered xorg.conf, but I don't think that's quite as likely.
 
Old 10-24-2006, 09:46 PM   #6
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I'd file a bug since the kde-desktop package shouldn't mess up xorg. Like sauron the eye said, something misconfigured your xorg.conf along the way. Glad to help
 
  


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