Upgrade to 8.04 stuck in 800x600

[Frank McCormick]

Raseel Bhagat wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Frank McCormick
> <fmccormick at videotron.ca <mailto:fmccormick at videotron.ca>> wrote:
> 
>     Just finished the upgrade to 8.04 -- and am now stuck in 800x600. I have
>     tried dpkg-reconfigure...hand editing the xorg.conf file and prayer. So
>     far nothing works. My card is Intel built-in video (865) my monitor is
>     an LG206wtq-bf LCD widescreen. Everytime xorg doesn't like the config it
>     brings up a monitor/card selection program...but the resoluation is so
>     bad you can hardly read any of the selections...none of which work
>     anyway.
>     Anybody have any good ideas?
> 
>     Thanks
> 
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> 
> IIRC, when you upgrade your xorg.conf file is backedup as
> /etc/X11/xorg_backup_<date>.
> If this file exists you should be able to reuse it.


   Tried that...no luck. I had to force an LG model that was in the list
but is not my monitor. I'm in 1280x960 or something like that now.
Still no solution!

Cheers