Upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 only displays in 800x600 on Intel 82G35 display controller

[fyrbrds at netscape.net]

 Your xorg.conf may not accurately reflect your video card/monitor capabilities. Here is the 24 bit  mode section for my xorg.conf.  You can use that as a template if you want to try modifying yours manually. Sounds like it may be your only option. Goes without saying that you should remove any options that do not fit your hardware's capabilities.

 

     SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1920x1200" "1600x1200" "1600x1024" "1600x1000" "1400x1050" "1600x900" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "1280x960" "1366x768" "1360x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
    EndSubSection

Hope that works for you. For some reason the video config programs are very buggy. I always have to tweak it manually. That is bad for newbies that are new to linux.

Regards, 

john


-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Janssen <alex at ourwoods.org>
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: Sun, Nov 1, 2009 10:18 pm
Subject: Upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 only displays in 800x600 on Intel 82G35 display controller










"X -configure" produces a xorg.conf file that shows my display 
controller properly, but it runs the display in 800x600.  The only 
options in System->Preferences->Display are 800x600 and 640x480 and it 
does not recognize the monitor, a Viewsonic AW1703wb that should be run 
at 1440x900.  I have tried reinstalling the xserver, but no better.
I can not find any bugs reported spcifically for this issue.
U9.04 had no problems with this board or monitor.
Should I reinstall 9.04 and wait a couple of months or is there a fix? 
I could try a fresh install as /home is on a different partition from /.

Alex
Intel DG35EC motherboard with 3GHz Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, 250 GB HD


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