On 11/3/06, Sayan Chakrabarti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have clean-intsalled Ubuntu Edgy on my system using the alternate install > Cd. My video card is an integrated Intel 82845G, so i chose the i810 video > driver while configuring X. Later, I gave the appropriate sync. ranges for > my monitor (Horiz : 30-54 KHz & Vert. : 50-160 Hz). however, when I tried to > start x, nothing came up except a black screen. so I decided to do a 'sudo > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' again, where I chose VESA as my driver. Now I > can start X, but it is restricted to a poor display of 640 X 480. Is this > the maximum I can get with VESA and my card? Or can I somehow get a better > resolution of 1024 X 768. > > Further, I had also installed Mepis 6.0 and Debian sarge on the same > machine (just for testing) . I chose i810 as my driver in both cases. Debian > (which uses xfree86 instead of xorg as xserver) worked absolutely fine.I > could get the desired 1024 X 768 resoultion after a little reconfiguration. > As for Mepis,it does show amomnetary black screen on booting, but soon that > too worked fine with desired resolution. > > So what's wrong with Ubuntu? and what is the solution? > > -- > Sayan Chakrabarti
I think sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg -plow is a better option -- Soumyadip Modak [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://soumyadip.freemind.in/blog -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
