screen resolution problems with Hardy Herron

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On 09/26/2008 09:59 AM, Rashkae wrote:

> 
> The thing is though, Monitors have been supplying EDID information since
>  before 95, and with X now using robust (suposedly) auto-detection,
> there should be no reason to put this stuff in your xorg.conf unless
> something is horribly broken.  Indeed, I suspect most of the issues
> people have been reporting here stem from old and broken gunk in
> xorg.conf and the file simply needs be destroyed (I think xfix does
> this, not entirely sure, as I've never had opportunity to test Hardy on
> a system that doesn't just work.)
> 

xfix generally does fix the issue. Note that xfix is simply a script
/usr/share/recovery-mode/options/xfix
that basically runs:
dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

> $ cat xfix
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> if [ "$1" = "test" ]; then
>   echo "Try to fix X server"
>   exit 0
> fi
> 
> whiptail --infobox "The X server reconfiguration is now running.  Your screen may flicker during hardware autodetection." 8 60
> 
> sleep 3
> dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
> sleep 3
> 
> exit 0