Stuck in 640x480 on upgrade

[ulrich steffens]

Am Mittwoch, den 06.04.2005, 20:12 -0700 schrieb Alex Mandel:
> I just did the upgrade from warty to hoary following the instructions on 
> 
> the web http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HoaryUpgradeNotes
> Everything went fine, and I rebooted and the xserver seemed to work so I 
> skipped the part about reconfiguring the xserver.
> 
> Upon shutdown and startup the next day I'm stuck with only one 
> resolution 640x480 60 Hz(was 1024x768 80Hz prev.). So I ran sudo 
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and it ever setting seems fine so reboot 
> and I still have no other options for my resolution in the 
> (System->Pref->Resolution, on the default Gnome).
> 
> What happened, it was working and isn't now and I'll I did was a shutdown?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
> 

hi, i had the somewhat same problem on a friends machine running a
similar graphics card and was spending lots of time to find out. 
the solution was decrease the DefaultDepth to 16 instead of 24.

this solved the problem being stuck at ugly resolutions.

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- ulrich
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