Screen resolution 12.04

Mark Panen mark.panen at gmail.com
Sun Jun 24 14:17:00 UTC 2012


On 22/06/2012 14:59, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 22 June 2012 13:00, Mark Panen <mark.panen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Acer Aspire 1362LC
>> AMD Sempron 2800+
>> XGA TFT LCD
>> 448 MB Ram
> According to this page:
> http://www.immortalsgate.com/dkauk/Laptops/Acer_Aspire_1362LC.htm
>
> That has a UniChrome Pro IGP graphics chip from VIA.
>
> If you Google for "UniChrome Pro IGP linux" you will find various
> pages explaining how to get a driver from Sourceforge or install it
> from the Ubuntu repositories directly.
>
> However, these instructions mostly date back to 2009-2010 - it's a
> pretty old GPU and a  pretty old, low-spec laptop, I'm afraid.
>
> It may be that the drivers are installed by default these days and
> just aren't working, or are no longer supported.
>
> Can you post your X.11 server startup log so that we can see what is going on?
>

I don't know what version of xorg 12.04 uses but xorg 7.6 in another 
distro causing the 3/4 screen problem, how can i downgrade to xorg 7.5 
which works fine and gives me a 1024x768 resolution?

-- 
Cheers
Mark





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