Xorg on Thinkpad W500 and Jaunty

[Michael Hirsch]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Mark Greenwood <fatgerman at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 17 May 2009 08:33:11 Michael Hirsch wrote:
>> I upgraded my w500 from Intrepid to Jaunty today.  The W500 has an
>> ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3650 graphics card.
>>
>> (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
>> (II) GLX: Initialized DRI GL provider for screen 0
>> (II) fglrx(0): Enable the clock gating!
>> (II) fglrx(0): Restoring recent mode: 1024x768 at 75Hz
>>
>> I think that is where my mode is getting set, and I can't find a way
>> to make another mode be used by default.
>
> I had similar problems - different machine but the symptoms look the same.
>
> Try editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf and adding:
>
> Option "PreferredMode" "1680x1050"
>
> into the "Monitor" section.

Thanks for the suggestion, Mark.  Unfortunately it made no difference.  :(

Michael