Okay, so now I have my XF86Config-4 automatically managed again, and it still hasn't solved the root problem: I only looked at having it re-written thinking something had changed and that re-writting it from the config would get it so that i can control my resolution again. With the config file as pasted in my first report by reportbug, I have a desktop that is 209 characters wide in a very small font, I'm not sure which of the following resolutions I'm running as I know I've hit control-alt-- or control-alt-+ at least once: "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864". however, with either that config file or the one that dpkg-reconfigure is now generating both with and without using the kernel frame buffer device (not sure if that is relevent), I'm getting a desktop which is about 227 characters wide, but which i can only see approx 88 of them at a time. pressing control-alt-- and control-alt-+ do not have any visisble affect on the size of the windows (gkrellm, the aterm i'd opened to measure the size with, and the few dock apps that start do not change apparance).
I do not see anything in the faq you have pasted the url to below about this. It covers things for nvidia drivers and another kind, m something, neither of which I'm using, but nothing about the ati drivers that you all provide. luke On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 02:55:41AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 12:38:01AM -0500, Luke Schierer wrote: > > no i did not notice that particular entry, it does not however help. I > > do not seem to have a XF86Config-4.dpkg-old file to revert to, so if I'm > > reading that right, i'm just sol, and i'd have to uninstall and > > reinstall xserver-xfree86 (and everything that depends on it) to get > > debconf to manage it again? if that's the case, that sounds like a bug > > in and of itself. > > No, things aren't that bad; please see the FAQ. > > > > See the Debian X FAQ at <http://people.debian.org/~branden/xsf/FAQ> > > > or in > > > the file /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz after this upgrade is > > > complete for more information on the Debian XFree86 packages' new > > > method > > > of handling these configuration files. > > -- > G. Branden Robinson | Don't ask the barber whether you > Debian GNU/Linux | need a haircut. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Daniel S. Greenberg > http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- -This email is made of 100% recycled electrons.
