On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:51:46PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > I have just installed sid on a Portege 4010 that I just acquired. I used > the very latest lenny network installer. I installed all packages beyond > the base install at my control with aptitude. > > The whole screen isn't being used. It looks like it is using 800x600 out > of the available 1024x768. The xorg.conf has basically *no* video > infcrmation. sudo dpkg-reconfigure -p<low|medium|high> gives no opportunity > to detect or choose the video card or monitor.
That should be 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' > I have googled for quite a while and not found how to get control of this > process. Possibly I am missing an xorg related package. I didn't install > xorg just every other xorg related package that looked necessary. Icewm is > running just fine. Please post the output of 'lspci | grep VGA' and 'dpkg -l *xorg* | grep ii' to see if anything is missing. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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