Ubuntu 8.10 Live CD only does 800x600 video!?

[Nils Kassube]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> --- On Mon, 2/9/09, Zach Uram <netrek at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I got an Ubuntu 8.10 Live Cd in the mail today so I'm
> > trying it, seems
> > nice but it will only let me do 800x600 video resolution
> > (very
> > annoying!), I looked in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and it
> > doesn't even have
> > specific values in there: http://pastebin.com/f3c5ff4f7 How
> > can I get
> > 1024x768 video resolution working? It worked fine in Ubuntu
> > 6.06 Live
> > CD.
>
> Have you tried booting up in recovery mode and running "xfix", let run
> to completion then select continue with normal boot.

AFAIK, there is no recovery mode or xfix option for the LiveCD. But if the 
problem is the installed system the xfix option might help. And if the 
6.06 CD is still available, the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf from that version 
could be used for 8.10 as well.


Nils