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

[Alex Janssen]

fyrbrds at netscape.net wrote:
> 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
>
Alas.  No joy, yet.  I burned the iso to a cd and booted it.  Same 
results. 800x600.  I filed a bug(#469764) on Launchpad.  Reinstalled 
9.04 with no problems.  I don't know enough to dig into the code for the 
Intel driver.

Thanks
Alex

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