problem with resolution

[Roger Chrisman]

Peter Garrett wrote:
> The Debian/Ubuntu Way (tm)  ;-) would be
>
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Caveat: If you have manually edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf the above *might* 
not work as expected (I'm not sure). Instead you might try:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

I had problems getting dpkg-reconfigure to work for XFree86 
configuration stuff when I used to do this manual config editing for 
XFree86. Not sure what the nature is of this issue under xorg but the 
following note from the top of /etc/X11/xorg.conf suggests to me that 
something similar *might* happen after you manually editing xorg.conf:

# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades 
*only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically 
updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

The -phigh tells dpkg-reconfigure to ask "high" priority questions. Not 
sure what that means or does actually.

Sorry I am not of more help. Just a heads up to read the above comment 
from the top of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

Good luck :-)

Roger