Upgrade to 8.04 stuck in 800x600

Raseel Bhagat raseelbhagat at gmail.com
Sat Oct 18 20:31:54 UTC 2008


On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Frank McCormick
<fmccormick at videotron.ca>wrote:

> Just finished the upgrade to 8.04 -- and am now stuck in 800x600. I have
> tried dpkg-reconfigure...hand editing the xorg.conf file and prayer. So
> far nothing works. My card is Intel built-in video (865) my monitor is
> an LG206wtq-bf LCD widescreen. Everytime xorg doesn't like the config it
> brings up a monitor/card selection program...but the resoluation is so
> bad you can hardly read any of the selections...none of which work anyway.
> Anybody have any good ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
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IIRC, when you upgrade your xorg.conf file is backedup as
/etc/X11/xorg_backup_<date>.
If this file exists you should be able to reuse it.

Thanks,
Raseel
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