Still trying to get to 1680x1050 WAS: Upgrade to 8.04 stuck in 800x600

[Leonard Chatagnier]

Just got back from town but have noticed that your problem was traced back to a faulty apt sources.list. It's always a good idea to check the sources.list file anytime it's certain a package is in the distro but you can't find it with aptitude show <pkg name> or aptitude search <pkg name>. This means you don't have the required deb mirror in sources list.  Caught me several time too.  You know that now but this may help someone who doesn't already know it.  Also, should have only one version of you listed mirrors.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net


--- On Tue, 10/21/08, Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca> wrote:

> From: Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca>
> Subject: Re: Still trying to get to 1680x1050 WAS: Upgrade to 8.04 stuck in 800x600
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 12:40 PM
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > Maybe, this is what you are looking for:
> > 
> > aptitude show xserver-xorg-video-intel
> > Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> > State: installed
> > Automatically installed: no
> > Version: 2:2.2.1-1ubuntu13.7
> > Priority: optional
> > Section: x11
> > Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers
> <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Uncompressed Size: 713k
> > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libdrm2 (>= 2.3.0),
> xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.4)
> > Conflicts: xserver-xorg-driver-i810,
> xserver-xorg-video-i810-modesetting,
> xserver-xorg-video-intel-modesetting
> > Replaces: xserver-xorg (< 6.8.2-35),
> xserver-xorg-driver-i810,
> xserver-xorg-video-i810-modesetting,
> xserver-xorg-video-intel-modesetting
> > Provides: xserver-xorg-video-2
> > Description: X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx
> display driver
> >  This package provides the driver for the Intel i8xx
> and i9xx family of chipsets, including i810, i815, i830,
> i845, i855, i865, i915, i945 and i965
> >  series chips.
> > 
> >  This package also provides an XvMC (XVideo Motion
> Compensation) driver for i810 and i815 chipsets.
> > 
> >  More information about X.Org can be found at:
> <URL:http://www.X.org>
> <URL:http://xorg.freedesktop.org>
> > 
> <URL:http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg>
> > 
> >  This package is built from the X.org xf86-video-intel
> driver module.
> > 
> > lchata at ubuntu-hardy-64bit:~$ aptitude search
> xserver-xorg-video-intel
> > i A xserver-xorg-video-intel                          
>                  - X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx
> display driver
> > p   xserver-xorg-video-intel-dbg                      
>                  - X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx
> display driver (debug symbols)
> > 
> > 
> > Leonard Chatagnier
> > lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> > 
> 
> root at frank-desktop:/home/frank# aptitude install
> xserver-xorg-video-intel
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Building tag database... Done
> No candidate version found for xserver-xorg-video-intel
> No candidate version found for xserver-xorg-video-intel
> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0
> not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be
> used.
> Writing extended state information... Done
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Building tag database... Done
> root at frank-desktop:/home/frank#
> 
> 
> That's it..unavailable
> 
> 
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